Kevin PowersThe male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There w… ▶353Death
Kevin PowersAll pain is the same. Only the details are different.378Sadness
Kevin PowersAll choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything i… ▶251Time
Kevin PowersTo understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.3310Hope
Kevin PowersFreedom is not the same as lack of accountability.285Humor
Kevin PowersThere is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true. ✨ Kevin Powers (2012). The Yellow Birds, p.42, Hachette UK221PoliticsTruth
Kevin PowersYou want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch on the edge of a cliff and going forward seems impossible, not for a lack of will… ▶243LifePoliticsThought
Kevin PowersThe war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over … ▶223HopePolitics
Kevin PowersI wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could … ▶191LifeReflectionTruth
Kevin PowersMichael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I hig… ▶182DeathReading
Kevin PowersI had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history. At least tha… ▶172PoliticsSadnessThought
Kevin PowersI knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn't mind. The world makes liars of u… ▶229ReadingThought
Kevin PowersMy personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.164Truth
Kevin PowersThe details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.209Truth
Kevin PowersBut I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.137Truth
