Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds Quotes

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

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.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

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