Reva Coppersmith

“You could still tell at a glance who'd been over there and who'd sat the war out at home. You could smell it on a man.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“You see, there are no pretty pink flowers in the woods at night.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“I had covered wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and elsewhere, but the work had started to feel routine. I wanted to leave the journalistic herd, to find a project that would both daunt and inspire me. Facing down the Congo was just such a project.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart