“Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liber...” — Sabaa Tahir Quote

“Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons were imprisoned by the army with no hope of release - made me think about how I would feel if someone took my brothers from me.”

“When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent's motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad's gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.”

“I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.”

“So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.”

“If you told me back in my Army days that I could have bought the same weapon that I had been using in training, I would not have believed it.”