"I can’t believe how much money and how much of our lives this has cost.”

“You can’t put a price on truth.”

“You’re right. We’re heroes."

Mother Jones human rights reporter Mac McClelland writes about fact-checking her book,  For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story From Burma’s Never-Ending War, with a mixture of fascination, dedication, and frustration that is familiar to me. Fact-checking is awesome. And difficult. And important. And exhausting. And awesome.