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Ausma Zehanat Khan QUOTES

1 " ....in Bosnia, mass rape was a policy of the war, systematically carried out, implicating neighbors, paramilitaries, soldiers. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)

2 " The culture of power versus the power of culture,” he quoted. “One side always loses. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)

3 " If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system? "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , Among the Ruins (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #3)

4 " Nothing about multiculturalism antagonized Rachel. She liked all kinds of food, clothing, cultural customs, and music. The one thing that held her aloof was a fear of offending through ignorance. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)

5 " Patriotism, nationalism,' she said impatiently. 'Call it what you wish. Mine the only flag, mine the only way. All else is inferior, trample it underfoot. Despise it, detest it. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)

6 " Khattak asked himself the question whether it wasn't just Saint-Isidore, and whether there was a place in this world where any member of his community could live unencumbered and at peace. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5)

7 " It's the ones who smile at you while they're plotting in the dark that I've learned to worry about.

Sometimes the monsters we fear aren't on the opposite side" Esa Khattak "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5)

8 " It's the ones who smile at you while they're plotting in the dark that I've learned to worry about.

Sometimes the monsters we fear aren't on the opposote side. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5)

9 " The battle is everywhere, all the time. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5)

10 " Something could be beautiful, humane, encompassing. Or it could be made ugly. And maybe that was the lesson. We bring to a tradition what is already within ourselves, however our moral compass is designed, whatever our ethical training is. And then the tradition speaks. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Language of Secrets (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #2)

11 " Appeasing the architects of the war "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)

12 " What do strangers owe each other in this life? "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , Among the Ruins (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #3)

13 " The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Language of Secrets (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #2)

14 " Why here?” Skender asked him. “Why not the café in front of Ferhadija?”
Esa smiled, but behind the smile was a sense of being haunted.
“I wanted to pay my respects,” he said. “I feel the presence of old ghosts. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , A Death in Sarajevo (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #3.5)

15 " It's the ones who smile at you whole they're plotting in the dark that I've learned to worry about."

"Sometimes the monsters we fear aren't on the opposite side. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5)

16 " The blue rain sank against the mullioned windows of the pub. The temperature had dropped. It was a good night to be indoors, drinking warm ale that nourished the throat as it spread its warmth to his toes. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)

17 " There was no art to the mind's construction of the face. She couldn't tell. There was no way to know what kind of mind or soul had breathed beneath that invariably brittle arrangement of bones. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)

18 " When attacks like these happen in Somalia or Pakistan, they barely register a pulse. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5)

19 " The culture of power versus the power of culture. One side consistently loses."

"We've a kind of Andalusia in this country," he teased, hoping to lighten her mood.

"Yes," she said seriously. "That's very true, but less true I think across the border. Inquisitions, pogroms, genocides⁠—those are end-points. Demonizing, fear, the passing of laws of exclusion, the burning of libraries⁠—these are beginnings. Historians are vigilant as to beginnings. Too often we fail. "

― Ausma Zehanat Khan , The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)