We must not be anything other than what we are.

- Maaza Mengiste

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

- Maaza Mengiste

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

- Maaza Mengiste

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

- Maaza Mengiste

The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

- Maaza Mengiste

Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

- Maaza Mengiste