You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch on the edge of a cliff and going forward seems impossible, not for a lack of will, but a lack of space. The possibility of another day stands in defiance of the laws of physics. And you can't go back. So you want to fall, let go, give up, but you can't. And every breath you take reminds you of that fact. So it goes.
Kevin PowersFreedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
Kevin PowersTag: freedom responsibility
There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.
Kevin PowersTag: memory
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.
Kevin PowersTag: choice
To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.
Kevin Powers... a new patina whitening the walls with marks of memories, all running together as if the memories themselves aspired to be the walls in which I was imprisoned...
Kevin PowersTag: page218
All pain is the same. Only the details are different.
Kevin Powers...what it had indexed to was only an idea of a place, an abstraction formed from memories too brief and passing to account for the small effects of time: wind scouring and lifting the dust of the plains of Nineveh in immeasurable increments, the tuck of a river farther into its bend, hour by hour, year by year; the map would become less and less a picture of fact and more a poor translation of memory in two dimensions. It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said. It wasn't much in the way of comfort, but everything has a little failure in it, and we still make do somehow.
Kevin PowersI 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.
Kevin PowersTag: death fighting alive giving-up
...the war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.
Kevin PowersTag: war
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