"When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive."
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Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.54, Sarah Crichton Books
