Marina quotes from Mobile Suit Gundam 00

[In her letter to Setsuna] Setsuna, even if you never read this letter, it's important that I write it. So please, let me put my feelings about you into words. You were forced to fight as a child soldier of Krugis, until eventually you could only live on the battlefield. Even though we both share the same desire to seek peace, even though we understand each other, why is it that my path and yours will never intersect? You use force to try and eliminate conflict from the world. Even if you were to succeed, would you ever find your own happiness in it? You're burdened with sin and you suffer scars and yet, you continue to fight. I can't help but think your way of living is unbearably sad. I believe the sharing of happiness that is within each person and then expanding those personal relationships is what will lead us to true peace. So please, it is my wish that someday you will seize your own happiness. Setsuna, I pray that someday, happiness finds you.

[in his letter to Marina Ismail] Marina... Ismail.... By the time you read this, I will no longer be in this world. The eradication of war through armed force... all I knew how to do is fight. But Celestial Being gave me a reason why I should fight. Like that day I saw the Gundam. I wanted to know... Why was the world so twisted? Where did this twistedness come from? How can people be so wicked without meaning to be? And why don't they realize their wickedness hurts others? Why are there things that bring chaos to so many lives? Why do people rule, and let themselves be ruled? And why do they hurt each other? And why, despite all that, do people still want to live their lives? I was just looking for answers. I thought that if I met with you, you'd give me those answers, because you're looking for the same thing, along a different path from mine. For the path where people can understand each other... for those answers....

[weeping] Setsuna...

I was looking for answers... together with my Gundam. With... my Gundam....

You were always right.

You too, you weren't mistaken either.

After all this time....

After all this time....

We finally understand each other.