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My work was entirely nonfiction.
— Laura Hillenbrand
I have to go around with my shirt open so that I have enough room for my chest.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Four more times the Japanese strafed them, sending Louie into the water to kick and punch at the sharks until the bomber had passed.
— Laura Hillenbrand
The turret was shot with holes, and the floor was jingling with flakes of metal and turret motor.
— Laura Hillenbrand
The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
— Laura Hillenbrand
He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me.
— Laura Hillenbrand
For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.
— Laura Hillenbrand
People had long conversations with him, only to realize later that he hadn't spoken.
— Laura Hillenbrand
daughter-in-law, Cecy, with whom she had become dear friends.
— Laura Hillenbrand
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
— Laura Hillenbrand
We had to rebuild him, both mentally and physically, but you don't have to rebuild the heart when it's already there, big as all outdoors.
— Laura Hillenbrand
He had a colorless translucence about him that made him seem as if he were in the earliest stages of progressive invisibility.
— Laura Hillenbrand
If you dig into it, it comes back to you. That's the way war is.
— Laura Hillenbrand
It is in times of superlative hardship that individuals live their epic adventures, stories that thrill, fascinate, inspire, and illuminate.
— Laura Hillenbrand
We figure he is the people's horse, and we propose to train him in the open.
— Laura Hillenbrand
I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled ... and I just wanted to keep being filled.
— Laura Hillenbrand
You were afraid to look up because you felt your face might be seen from above.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Charlie Tilghman, who flies a restored B-24 for the Commemorative Air Force, taught me about flying the Liberator.
— Laura Hillenbrand
It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.
— Laura Hillenbrand
This, this little home," he said, "was worth all of it.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.
— Laura Hillenbrand
A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Zamperini looked toward his crewmates. They were too weak
— Laura Hillenbrand
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Louie, declared dead more than sixty years earlier, would outlive them all.
— Laura Hillenbrand
... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.
— Laura Hillenbrand
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
— Laura Hillenbrand
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Without dignity, identity is erased.
— Laura Hillenbrand
His old riot of black hair was now a translucent scrim of white, but his blue eyes still threw sparks.
— Laura Hillenbrand
So long,Charley.
— Laura Hillenbrand
The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
— Laura Hillenbrand
With arms shrunken to little more than bone and yellowed skin, the castaways waved and shouted,
— Laura Hillenbrand
I'll be an easier subject than Seabiscuit, because I can talk." Louis Zamperini to Laura Hillenbrand.
— Laura Hillenbrand
In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the rest had gone mad.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.
— Laura Hillenbrand
The fatal poison of irresponsible power.
— Laura Hillenbrand
They were alone on sixty-four million square miles of ocean. A month earlier,
— Laura Hillenbrand
His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life.
— Laura Hillenbrand
I had been writing professionally since 1988.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Pillsbury shouted the only word that came to mind. Ow!
— Laura Hillenbrand
If I knew I had to go through those experiences again," he finally said, "I'd kill myself.
— Laura Hillenbrand
A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.
— Laura Hillenbrand
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Only the laundry knew how scared I was.
— Laura Hillenbrand
His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.
— Laura Hillenbrand
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
— Laura Hillenbrand
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.
— Laura Hillenbrand
I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.
— Laura Hillenbrand