Fragility Quote by Ishmael Beah

“I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.”

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My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

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My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that…

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Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting…

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I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling.…

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My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

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“Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more”

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This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

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