Maaza Mengiste quotes:

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

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

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

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

We must not be anything other than what we are.

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

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