"What I told her shattered her world. Her lifelong search ended in stories of murder. Her story ends here.
But you know what she said?
She said no.
Her story starts here. Her whole life she thought she wasn't wanted. That she didn't belong. That every family who took her in didn't want her to stay, didn't care...
But the entire time it was S.H.I.E.L.D. protecting her. Looking after her.
That's what she took away from the story.
Not the family she'll never have, but the one she's always had.
Here I am, telling her something that could destroy her faith in humanity, and somehow she manages to repair a little piece of mine.
The world is full of death, and pain, and lies. And you can't hide from it.
You can only face it.
The question is, when you do, how do you respond?
Who do you become?"
~Phil Coulson
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