# Quote — Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

> We all know that war destroys mankind, and in spite of their differences in race, creed, and religion, women all across the world despise war because its fruit is nothing but destruction.

- Author: [Maaza Mengiste](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste.md)
- Book: [The Shadow King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maaza_Mengiste#Shadow_King_(2019)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king/we-all-know

## More from this book

> What he knows is this: there is no past, there is no "what happened", there is only the moment that unfolds into the next, dragging everything with it, constantly renewing. Everything is happening at once.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king/what-he-knows.md)

> My father was always a stranger to me, he will say. I knew him through his questions, not his answers.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king/my-father-was.md)

> She does not want to remember but she is here and memory is gathering bones.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king/she-does-not.md)