If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

- Asne Seierstad

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

- Asne Seierstad

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

- Asne Seierstad

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

- Asne Seierstad

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

- Asne Seierstad

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, …

- Asne Seierstad

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

- Asne Seierstad

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

- Asne Seierstad

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

- Asne Seierstad