4 Quotes by Kent Russell

You begin to understand why public libraries are so popular with the indigent,: I said. " A comfortable space where you don't have to literally buy time just to sit there?"Glenn agreed. "Sign me up.

But now, with a volunteer military, my decision not to serve was simply another choice I was free to make, like choosing not to go to church. It was the sum of my conscience, my ambitions, and my own best interests.

Later, he’d tell me that combat happened subconsciously. No thoughts, only effervescence. This feeling of a million fizzes rising one on another. I’ve since wondered: Is that what unconditional love feels like?

It’s the same something feared by any ass-kicker who finds himself in medias res, hacking through the thick of it, knee-deep in the dead. He feared that, were he ever to stop, the mind he needed to keep trained on a target might instead turn on him.