"When people around me died of the atomic bomb sickness, and I also wondered whether I would survive, I saw this tree putting out shoots and thought I could somehow go on living."
— Anonymous Hiroshima survivor, quoted in "The Scarred Ginkgo: Hibakujumoku Tilt?
" by Yūko Ishida
" by Yūko IshidaSimba: Scar couldn't let go of his hate. And in the end, it destroyed him.
Kovu: I've... never heard the story of Scar that way. He truly was a killer.
Simba: Fire is a killer. Sometimes, what's left behind can grow better than the generation before... if given the chance.
