Dan Carney > Dan's Quotes

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”
― Yeats

“There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“To say what happened, the mere facts, the disposition of events in time, would come to seem like a kind of treachery. The dominoes of moments, lined up symmetrically, then tumbling backward against the hazy and unsure push of cause, showed only that a fall is every object's destiny. It is not enough to say what happened. Everything happened. Everything fell.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“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 Powers, The Yellow Birds

“You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing