“We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true. — Kevin Powers Distinction Copy Share Image
“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to… — Kevin Powers Grief Copy Share Image
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light. — Kevin Powers Books Copy Share Image
“For one brief incalculable moment we were not brave or afraid.” — Kevin Powers Brave Copy Share Image
“There was no center to the world. The curves of all our bells are cracked.” — Kevin Powers Bells Copy Share Image
Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself. — Kevin Powers Aspiration Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be responsible for him. I had enough to worry about. I was disintegrating, too. How was I supposed… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite… — Kevin Powers Comfort Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices… — Kevin Powers Choice Copy Share Image
Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but… — Kevin Powers Body Copy Share Image
“And what did it mean that this choice was an illusion, that all choices are illusions, or that if they are not… — Kevin Powers Illusions Copy Share Image
I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history. At least that's what I thought. Now I know: All pain is the… — Kevin Powers History Copy Share Image
“Towards parties and the banks of streams and ponds, along which young boys would pace out hours in silence after taking the… — Kevin Powers Prayer Copy Share Image
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle… — Kevin Powers Adulthood Copy Share Image
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled… — Kevin Powers Cities Copy Share Image
“It's lovely to think that snow can be special. we're always told it is. Of all those million million flakes that fall,… — Kevin Powers Introspection Copy Share Image
“I understood. Being from a place where a few facts are enough to define you, where a few habits can fill a… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and… — Kevin Powers Accidents Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very… — Kevin Powers Care Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it -… — Kevin Powers Books Copy Share Image
“...what it had indexed to was only an idea of a place, an abstraction formed from memories too brief and passing to… — Kevin Powers Thought Copy Share Image
“I was disappearing. It was as if I stripped myself away in that darkened bedroom on a spring afternoon, and when I… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“Or should I have said that I wanted to die, not in the sense of wanting to throw myself off of that… — kevin powers Copy Share Image
“I looked out the window and saw the street and railroad tracks, the woods beyond. Beyond the woods, the county of which… — Kevin Powers Childhood Copy Share Image
“When we neared the orchard a flock of birds lit from its outer rows. They hadn't been there long. The branches shook… — Kevin Powers Cheap wine Copy Share Image
“I was an intruder, at best a visitor, and would be even in my home, in my misremembered history, until the glow… — Kevin Powers History Copy Share Image
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war, — Kevin Powers Anti war Copy Share Image
To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on. — Kevin Powers Dream Copy Share Image
“A moment is never long enough to account for tragedy when you are in it.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could… — Kevin Powers Destiny Copy Share Image
