Beah Quotes
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Beah Quotes & Sayings
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I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.
— Ishmael Beah
We walked into the arms of the forest...
— Ishmael Beah
Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
— Beah Richards
My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.
— Ishmael Beah
Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
— Ishmael Beah
I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
— Ishmael Beah
Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.
— Beah Richards
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
This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.
— Ishmael Beah
The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.
— Ishmael Beah
When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.
— Beah Richards
My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.
— Ishmael Beah
We must strive to be like the moon
— Ishmael Beah
We all knew that we could grieve only for a short while in order to continue staying alive.
— Ishmael Beah
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.
— Ishmael Beah
I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.
— Ishmael Beah
The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.
— Ishmael Beah
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
— Beah Richards
I wanted to see my family, even if it meant dying with them.
— Ishmael Beah
These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. (page 20)
— Ishmael Beah
Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.
— Ishmael Beah
My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed.
— Ishmael Beah
It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.
— Ishmael Beah
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.
— Ishmael Beah
Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.
— Ishmael Beah
As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.
— Ishmael Beah
