“The fact is, all of that fear, that chronic fear, the mass anxiety, is artificial. None of it is natural. It is not organic. It’s not a new normal. And it is not inevitable. It is the kind of thing that is so weak.” –Tammy Bruce

“It’s always about learning. It’s always about getting better. In the military, I was a student of warfare. My whole life, I’ve been a student of warfare, trying to prepare myself to be the best leader and operator I could be in the SEAL team because I knew I wanted to do that, from a very early age. And then same thing with writing. I am focused on getting better and better with each one. So I want the next book to be better than Red Sky Mourning.” — Jack Carr

“So these are the real reported stories of detransitioners, which are people. And in this book, young people who tried to do what we would say is unthinkable to change their gender. So for many of these people, and let’s just say the girls, they’re teenagers, they’re going on social media and they’re seeing all these representations of masculinity and femininity that are really confusing them, because we know our culture is struggling so much with that nowadays.” — Mary Margaret Olohan

“This ship that nobody expected that much from, went on to sort of earn a tremendous combat record, survived a terrible typhoon, and ended up the only U.S. aircraft carrier in Tokyo Bay to see the Japanese surrender. So it’s quite an underdog story.” — Nathan Canestaro