Ishmael Beah

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In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion

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I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end

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Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk

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I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak

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The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer