A Shout in the Ruins Quotes

“Come back in five years, in ten, in a hundred, and tell me what you’ve accomplished. In the meantime, I will take what I need.”

“You will take what you want.”

“You act like there’s a man anywhere on earth who can tell the difference.”
― Kevin Powers, A Shout in the Ruins

“A man who can’t hate can’t love”
― Kevin Powers, A Shout in the Ruins

“The world is changing, he thought. And though he was willing to admit it more quickly than most, his real gift was in recognizing that people were not changing with it.”
― Kevin Powers, A Shout in the Ruins