America Quote by Sara Niles

“Burning aviators, clots of fire. The reeking night jar in our bedroom in Muswell Hill. Children skipping round me in a school yard, shouting…

— Peter Behrens

“Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze…

— Christopher Hitchens

“And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would…

— Barack Obama

“We had the air war overhead, which was frightening, but we were, in a way, getting used to it. Now, however, we could hear…

— Alfred Nestor

“It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition. War reminded me of the sharp and…

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

“The smells of fried onions, pea soup, and fish fought for airspace.”

— Kseniya Melnik

“We had seen too many horrors already, and we could see and hear more explosions all around us as the war continued, very close…

— Alfred Nestor

“But you never knew where the bombs would fall in the dark, so night bombing was even more frightening than daylight bombing. Let’s just…

— Alfred Nestor

“A faint acrid smell drifted in through the window, from the cannon fire. But through it all the walls of my prison cell never…

— Nancy Bilyeau

“My grandmother’s is the world that dropped the bomb—itself a slick object—so elegantly smooth it managed to slip past American consciousness, past enemy lines.”

— John D'Agata

“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the…

— Mark Slouka

“Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is…

— Chris Cleave