The Rising is not a single narrative; there is no one true story that unifies that entire bloody summer, no one event which exemplifies the human experience. It is a piece of history like any other, a tapestry of lives which, viewed in total, may someday give us that rarest of commodities: We may, by looking at them all, someday discover the truth.
—Mahir Gowda
When I was a kid, people used to talk about living in the future. Well, I live in the future. I want to go back to living in the past.
—Lorelei Tutt
Captain, United States Coast Guard