The Unquiet Dead Quotes

“....in Bosnia, mass rape was a policy of the war, systematically carried out, implicating neighbors, paramilitaries, soldiers.”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Unquiet Dead

“The culture of power versus the power of culture,” he quoted. “One side always loses.”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Unquiet Dead

“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

“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

“Appeasing the architects of the war”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Unquiet Dead

“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

“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

“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