Laura Hillenbrand

Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Hillenbrandis an American author of books and magazine articles. Her two best-selling nonfiction books, Seabiscuit: An American Legend and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption have sold over 10 million copies, and each was adapted for film. Her writing style is considered to differ from the New Journalism style, dropping verbal pyrotechnics in favor of a stronger focus on the story itself...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth15 May 1967
CountryUnited States of America
...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.
His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.
I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.