Conflict Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“But the average Kabuli was prepared to sacrifice some liberty for greater security and a measure of dignity. That's what the Taliban promised. It's…

— Marc Vachon

“Kabul was fairly peaceful now and Grandpa seemed to have started wasting away since the bombing stopped. For the past twenty-three years the excitement…

— Petra Procházková

“marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“the gains of women in Afghanistan once again directly contributed to war, as their fate was mixed into the powder keg of tension between…

— Jenny Nordberg

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy

“As we drove around town I felt like the queen of Afghanistan. People were waving at me and the joy felt by the few…

— Petra Procházková

“I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Although the Taliban inflicted six times more civilian fatalities, President Karzai escalated his rants about American-caused casualties and released those imprisoned for killing Americans.”

— Bing West

“Kabul is . . .” Idris searches for the right words. “A thousand tragedies per square mile.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn’t stand a chance.”

— Paul Rudnick

“The Afghan sky, under which the most beautiful idylls on earth were woven, grew suddenly dark with armored predators; its azure limpidity was streaked…

— Yasmina Khadra

“Afghanistan is a land of widows and widowers, orphans and the missings. Missing a right leg, a left hand, a child,or a mother. Everyone…

— Nadia Hashimi