Hawkeye

"Gratitude is a skill I'm developing, one day at a time."

"I don't know what love is, but I'm learning to recognize kindness."

"Success used to mean a clean kill. Now it means a clean conscience."

"I've learned that happiness is in the small moments."

"The only power I want now is power over my own life."

"Health is something I never took for granted because I was always trained to hurt."

"Money never mattered to me because I never had a choice in earning it."

"Courage isn't being fearless. It's doing what's right even when you're afraid."

"Adventure is something other people do. I'm just trying to live."

"I don't need to be saved. I need to save myself."

"Trust is a four-letter word that used to mean danger."

"I was taught to be perfect at one thing. I'm learning to be imperfect at many."

"Solitude is safety, but it's also lonely."

"Relationships are complicated when you're trained to see everyone as a target."

"You want inspiration from me? I'm still looking for it myself."

"Motivation used to come from fear. Now I'm learning different reasons."

"War is all I know. Learning peace is harder than any battle."

"I don't care much about politics. I care about staying alive."

"Literature teaches you about worlds outside your own. I'm just discovering that."

"Philosophy is a luxury. Survival was my only philosophy."

"History is written by people like those who trained me."

"Technology was used to control me. I won't let it do that again."

"Death has been my constant companion. Maybe it's time for something different."

"Nature reminds me there's a world beyond compound walls."

"Peace is harder than any fight I've ever been in."

"Justice looks different when you've been on the wrong side of it."

"Faith? I'm still figuring out what that means."

"Music makes me feel things I don't have names for."

"Science created me. That's not something I'm proud of."

"Art was never part of my education, but I'm learning to appreciate it."