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Category: Tatjana Soli

No matter that they had been together for years, always a feeling of formality when they first saw each other again, even if the separation had been only hours. It had something to do with the attention [he] paid to her – the fact that he never took anyone’s return for granted.

Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?

She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.

She consoled herself with the thought that the pictures were graphic enough to shake people up, stop them being complacent about what was happening, and if that meant the war would end sooner, those two deaths weren’t in vain. As she hoped, with less and less confidence each day, that Michael’s had not been in vain. Too much waste to bear.

She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going on, her memories growing dim, the photographs of the battles turning from life into history terrified her.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

A woman sees war differently.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

What was the point of living through history if you didn’t record it?

What was the point of living through history if you didn’t record it?