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"As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it."
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"Adaptation is the key to survival."
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"A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct."
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"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."
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"She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive."
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"Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death."
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"We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here when you rise."
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"The best thing-in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing-about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it."
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"When in doubt, choose to live."
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"We just did an awesome job of not dying."
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"Survive, survive and survive " these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean."
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"And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent."
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"As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it."
Survival
"I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life."
Life
"The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence."
Leadership
"So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are."
Idea
"What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents."
Dream
"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself."
Parents
"But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice."
Time
"In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen."
Faith
"Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life."
Life
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