99 Nights in Logar Quotes

“Down the road the voice of a child called out the adhan from the megaphone of a mosque’s citadel, and even with the static and the echo and the cracking of his pitch, it sounded so sweet in the fading light, with the fields darkening, and the crickets chirping their songs.”
― Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar

“If there was a group of men, one of them sipped his chai and told his story, and when he got to a point where he couldn’t continue, the point in the story I most wanted to hear, someone else
took a sip of his chai and began his own story, and so on and so forth, until everyone was given a say and not a single story was actually finished.”
― JAMIL JAN KOCHAI, 99 Nights in Logar

“As Gul predicted, later in the day, Rahmutallah Maamaa came into my chamber, by himself, and offered me a juice box, a slice of watermelon, and Budabash’s life.
I declined all three.”
― Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar

“America, still argue about where exactly the violence all started, and none of us can really agree, and none of us can concede a point.”
― Jamil Jan Kochai, 99 Nights in Logar: A Novel