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“I knew I could never forget my past, but I wanted to stop talking about it so that I would be fully present in my new life.”
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
“One man carried his dead son. He thought the boy was still alive. The father was covered with his son's blood, and as he ran he kept saying, "I will get you to the hospital, my boy, everything will be fine." Perhaps it was necessary that he cling to false hopes, since they kept him running from harm.”
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
“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.”
― A Long Way Gone
― A Long Way Gone
“We can be rehabilitated,” I would emphasize, and point to myself as an example. I would always tell people that I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.”
― A Long Way Gone
― A Long Way Gone
“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.”
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