Hope

“When your afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Imagination, like reality, has its limits.”
― Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato

“In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.”
― Amy Efaw, After

“Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Scars