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1. "If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist." ~ Asne Seierstad
2. "If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan." ~ Asne Seierstad
3. "When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer." ~ Asne Seierstad
4. "The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important." ~ Asne Seierstad
5. "The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name." ~ Asne Seierstad
6. "If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead." ~ Asne Seierstad
7. "As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war." ~ Asne Seierstad
8. "I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write." ~ Asne Seierstad
9. "If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write." ~ Asne Seierstad
10. "What the sounds and smells do not divulge, gossip supplies. It spreads like wildfire in the neighborhood, where everyone is watching one another's morals." ~ Åsne Seierstad
11. "War was a central theme in maths books too. School books - because the Taliban printed books soley for boys - did not calcualte in apples and cakes, but in bullets and kalasnikovs. Something like this: 'little Omar has a kalasnikov with three magazines. There are twenty bullets in each magazine. He uses two thirds of the bullets and kills sixty infidels does he kill with each bullet?" ~ Åsne Seierstad
12. "Anonymity became a release, the only place to which I could turn." ~ Åsne Seierstad
13. "To say nothing means to give one's consent." ~ Åsne Seierstad
14. "Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a field - if it's not cared for, the weeds will take over. But if you tend it, water and feed the seeds, you will read a bountiful harvest. Serbs are lazy, we lack discipline and have no capacity for self-criticism." With Their Backs to the World" ~ Åsne Seierstad
15. "Os iraquianos sempre devoraram livros: são o nosso alimento e, além do amor, é a única coisa que necessitamos" ~ Åsne Seierstad
16. "They played a game of dare - who could get closest to the flames?" ~ Åsne Seierstad

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