71 Quotes by Kevin Powers

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

All 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 in that moment.

I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn miracle.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

I 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 be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.

A moment is never long enough to account for tragedy when you are in it.

I didn't want to smile and say thanks. Didn't want to pretend I'd done anything except survive

It's lovely to think that snow can be special. we're always told it is. Of all those million million flakes that fall, no two are alike, forever and ever, amen. I've spent some time looking out the window of my cabin watching snowflakes fall like a shot dove's feathers fluttering slowly down to the ground. They all look the same to me.

Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.