Nature Quote by Yasmina Khadra

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy

“I sat against one of the house’s clay walls. The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land... it surprised me. I’d been gone…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

“In Afghanistan, not much is for certain other than an open sky and eventual death. In between the two is family.”

— Jenny Nordberg

“In the time before the fighting, before the rockets, before the warlords and their false promises, before the sudden disappearance of so many people…

— Qais Akbar Omar

“Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...”

— Khaled Hosseini

“the USSR, far from having engineered the April 1978 communist seizure of power in Kabul, and plotting then to send in troops as part…

— Fred Halliday

“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

“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

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War

— Jurgen Habermas

“He described what was happening in Afghanistan as a “war between two elephants”—the US and the Soviet Union—not our war, and said that we…

— Malala Yousafzai

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

— Khaled Hosseini