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Kevin Powers quotes: I didn't want to be responsible for him. I had enough to worry about. I was disintegrating, too. How was I supposed to keep us both in tact?

I didn't want to be responsible for him. I had enough to worry about. I was disintegrating, too. How was I supposed to keep us both in tact?

Kevin Powers quotes: I would only sit muttering with envy for their broad umbrellas, their dryness, and the sweet, unwounded banality of their lives.

I would only sit muttering with envy for their broad umbrellas, their dryness, and the sweet, unwounded banality of their lives.

Kevin Powers quotes: I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Kevin Powers quotes: Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

Kevin Powers quotes: Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

Kevin Powers quotes: Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.

Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.

Kevin Powers quotes: We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all.

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all.

Kevin Powers quotes: We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.

We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.

Kevin Powers quotes: People are going to die," he said flatly. "It's statistics." Then he got up and left the room.

People are going to die," he said flatly. "It's statistics." Then he got up and left the room.

Kevin Powers quotes: I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Kevin Powers quotes: To understand the world, one's place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

To understand the world, one's place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

Kevin Powers quotes: There was no center to the world. The curves of all our bells are cracked.

There was no center to the world. The curves of all our bells are cracked.

Kevin Powers quotes: I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

Kevin Powers quotes: All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

Kevin Powers quotes: 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.

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.

Kevin Powers quotes: I had feared the truth on her behalf and it had not been my right to make that choice for her.

I had feared the truth on her behalf and it had not been my right to make that choice for her.

Kevin Powers quotes: Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.

Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.

Kevin Powers quotes: My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Kevin Powers quotes: Clouds spread out over the Atlantic like soiled linens on an unmade bed.

Clouds spread out over the Atlantic like soiled linens on an unmade bed.

Kevin Powers quotes: Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to go around.

Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to go around.

Kevin Powers quotes: There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

Kevin Powers quotes: Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

Kevin Powers quotes: The world makes liars of us all.

The world makes liars of us all.

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

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

Kevin Powers quotes: And I understood why he came and why I couldn't go, not just then at least, because one never knows if what one sees will disappear forever.

And I understood why he came and why I couldn't go, not just then at least, because one never knows if what one sees will disappear forever.

Kevin Powers quotes: Minutes ticked into the past.

Minutes ticked into the past.

Kevin Powers quotes: The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.

The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.

Kevin Powers quotes: One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

Kevin Powers quotes: The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

Kevin Powers quotes: I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

Kevin Powers quotes: You are only as sick as your secrets.

You are only as sick as your secrets.

Kevin Powers quotes: But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Kevin Powers quotes: I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

Kevin Powers quotes: I feel like I'm being eaten from the inside out and I can't tell anyone what's going on ...

I feel like I'm being eaten from the inside out and I can't tell anyone what's going on ...