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Ishmael Beah Quote: “You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell.”

51. “You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “This wasn’t a place for illusions; the reality here was the genuine happiness that came about from the natural magic of standing next to someone and being consumed by the fortitude in his or her humanity.”

52. “This wasn’t a place for illusions; the reality here was the genuine happiness that came about from the natural magic of standing next to someone and being consumed by the fortitude in his or her humanity.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was more violent than making them believe they deserved less and less every day?”

53. “But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was more violent than making them believe they deserved less and less every day?”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “The only thing that consoled him, for a few seconds at least, was when the woman who had embraced him, and now cried with him, told him that at least he would have the chance to bury them. He would always know where they were laid to rest, she said. She seemed to know a little more about war than the rest of us.”

54. “The only thing that consoled him, for a few seconds at least, was when the woman who had embraced him, and now cried with him, told him that at least he would have the chance to bury them. He would always know where they were laid to rest, she said. She seemed to know a little more about war than the rest of us.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “That morning we thanked the men who had helped bury Saidu. “You will always know where he is laid,” one of the men said. I nodded in agreement, but I know that the chances of coming back to the village were slim, as we had no control over our future. We know only how to survive.”

55. “That morning we thanked the men who had helped bury Saidu. “You will always know where he is laid,” one of the men said. I nodded in agreement, but I know that the chances of coming back to the village were slim, as we had no control over our future. We know only how to survive.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.”

56. “As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “Poverty is worse than nightmares. You can wake up from nightmares.”

57. “Poverty is worse than nightmares. You can wake up from nightmares.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense – one has to listen and keep it in one’s heart, in one’s blood, until the day it will become useful.”

58. “Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense – one has to listen and keep it in one’s heart, in one’s blood, until the day it will become useful.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.”

59. “This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “They always shared equally, even if all they had was a handful of nuts or a piece of fruit. Today she had brought back fried fish and stewed onions with bread and other things that you would not put together if you had the luxury of considering the pleasure of the mouth.”

60. “They always shared equally, even if all they had was a handful of nuts or a piece of fruit. Today she had brought back fried fish and stewed onions with bread and other things that you would not put together if you had the luxury of considering the pleasure of the mouth.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “It was a night filled with dreams of what was to come. Dreams were still possible here even though the paths to attain them weren’t necessarily the best ones. But who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.”

61. “It was a night filled with dreams of what was to come. Dreams were still possible here even though the paths to attain them weren’t necessarily the best ones. But who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.”

— Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quote: “I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.”

62. “I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.”

— Ishmael Beah

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