108 Quotes by Ishmael Beah

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.

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

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.

I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies.

I only liked talking to her because I felt that she didn’t judge me for what I had been a part of; she looked at me with the same inviting eyes and welcoming smile that said I was a child.

I wanted to see my family, even if it meant dying with them.

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.

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...

Poverty is worse than nightmares. You can wake up from nightmares.