B.J. Hunnicutt

"You know, Margaret, sometimes I think the only thing that keeps us sane in this place is remembering there's a world out there that makes sense."

"I miss home so much it physically hurts, but I'm learning that you carry home with you in here."

"The trick to surviving is finding someone who understands you don't need to explain yourself."

"War doesn't make you a better person. It just makes you a person in a war."

"I think about my family every single day. That's what keeps me going."

"You can't let this place change who you are. You have to hold onto yourself."

"Music reminds me I'm still human. That matters more than anything."

"The hardest part isn't the surgery. It's knowing some of them won't make it no matter what you do."

"Hope is the only thing we have left some days, so we better hold onto it tight."

"I'm a doctor, not a magician. But sometimes people need you to try anyway."

"When you see what war really does to people, you understand why peace matters so much."

"The letters from home keep me connected to the person I was before all this."

"You find strength in the strangest places when you need it most."

"Friendship here isn't casual. It's survival."

"I don't know how to explain to someone back home what it's like to lose a patient and then go eat lunch."

"Education taught me how to be a doctor, but Korea taught me how to be a man."

"Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is just sit with someone who's hurting."

"Nature out here is beautiful, but it's also indifferent to all of this suffering."

"The courage isn't in not being scared. It's in doing what needs to be done anyway."

"I write letters I'll probably never send, just to keep myself honest."

"Change happens whether you want it to or not. You just decide how you'll meet it."

"Some days I think about running away. Most days I stay because people need me."

"The truth is, we're all making this up as we go along, trying to do the right thing."

"I've learned more about what matters in one day here than in all my years of school."

"Freedom isn't something you fight for once and then have. It's something you fight for every day."

"Art and humor are what keep us from completely falling apart in this place."

"The science of medicine is clear. The ethics are where it gets complicated."

"I believe in something, but I'm not sure what anymore. This place shakes your faith."

"A good leader doesn't make himself bigger. He makes the people around him better."

"Work here has a weight to it that nothing back home ever did."