“Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.” — kevin powers History Copy Share Image
“We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.” — Kevin Powers Dirt roads 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 Details 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
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light. — Kevin Powers Books 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
“A moment is never long enough to account for tragedy when you are in it.” — Kevin Powers Time 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
“People are going to die," he said flatly. "It's statistics." Then he got up and left the room.” — Kevin Powers Iraq war 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 Didn Want 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
“And what did it mean that this choice was an illusion, that all choices are illusions, or that if they are not… — Kevin Powers Men and women 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 Admire Copy Share Image
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to… — Kevin Powers Army Copy Share Image
“I would only sit muttering with envy for their broad umbrellas, their dryness, and the sweet, unwounded banality of their lives.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“... a new patina whitening the walls with marks of memories, all running together as if the memories themselves aspired to be… — Kevin Powers Imprisoned Copy Share Image
One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of… — Kevin Powers Expectations 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 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
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
“And now I know the extent of Sterling's bravery. It was narrowly focused, but it was pure and unadulterated. I twas a… — Kevin Powers Bravery Copy Share Image
Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and… — Kevin Powers College Copy Share Image
“His English was exceptional. There was a glottal sound in his voice, but it was not harsh. I'd often asked him to… — Kevin Powers Arabic Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more… — Kevin Powers Details 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 Disappearing Copy Share Image
“Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.” — Kevin Powers Like Drunk Copy Share Image
“He waited, as if waiting for whichever last shadow would cause evening.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Boundaries Copy Share Image
But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed. — Kevin Powers Believed Copy Share Image
I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand. — Kevin Powers Interested Copy Share Image
“I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it… — Kevin Powers Days Copy Share Image
I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've… — Kevin Powers Difficult Copy Share Image
“I smelled the clean house and the wood-frame bed. It was all filler. The noise, the sound, they existed just to take… — Kevin Powers Clean house Copy Share Image
“For one brief incalculable moment we were not brave or afraid.” — Kevin Powers Courage Copy Share Image
Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself. — Kevin Powers Aspiration Copy Share Image
“There was no center to the world. The curves of all our bells are cracked.” — Kevin Powers Bells Copy Share Image
