https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c Made with book love en-us 2018-11-13 17:17:45 UTC 2025-09-29 12:11:34 UTC hello@padlet.com edesmond https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/303888147 Choose a favorite quotation from the link below.  Cut and paste the quotation into your own post, and underneath write why you like this quotation so much.  Pick any quotation your want--double are fine. Just make sure your put your name in the title of your post! See my sample as a guide!

]]> 2018-11-13 17:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/303888147 edesmond https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/303888150 “If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
I love this quote because I do believe life is always a painful struggle, Everyday we face challenges--expected and unexpected. But our lives go on, so why not be courageous and even joyous in theface of one's difficult life?]]> 2018-11-13 17:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/303888150 2021wbittner https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304247224 “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.”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I like the quote because this means that if Ishmael stopped trying and looking for his family and gave up then he will die and this motivation kept him going through out the story.]]> 2018-11-14 13:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304247224 2021shauser https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304256096 “We danced and laughed into the morning. But gradually we stopped. It was as if we all knew that we could be happy for only a brief moment.”
i like this quote because in a book with so much war and violence there is some joyfulness and happiness for these kids. it only last for a brief moment as they say  which is sad but it could still be a glimmer of hope for them.]]> 2018-11-14 13:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304256096 https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304374175 “...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.” 
I like this quote because it says that kid soldiers can become humans again. ]]> 2018-11-14 16:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304374175 2021ifreind https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304376850 “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.” 
I liked this quote because it keeps ishmael alive throughout the book. He stays alive because he knows that if tommorow wouldn't be better then the current day he would die and so far he has stayed alive. This though process gives him hope through killing villages and his family dying and constantly running and through all that he makes it out alive to new york where he can have a better life and maybe make it in the world.]]> 2018-11-14 16:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304376850 2021jgumpert https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304379516 “At night it felt as if we were walking with the moon. It followed us under thick clouds and waited for us at the other end of dark forest paths. It would disappear with sunrise but return again, hovering on our path. Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. Under these stars I used to hear stories, but now it seemed as if it was the sky that was telling us a story as its stars fell, violently colliding with each other. The moon hid behind clouds to avoid seeing what was happening.” ]]> 2018-11-14 16:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304379516 2021jspositi https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304380276 “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.”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone
I like this quote because he is saying that he wouldn't make other s go through having to make that decision, even though that meant it would affect him. ]]> 2018-11-14 16:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304380276 2021elederer https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304382197 “My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.”
I like this quote because it shows what the young boys had to go through and rely on so that they could survive. ]]> 2018-11-14 16:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304382197 2021jnorton https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304386019 "As i was going down the hill i heard gunshots and dogs barking and people screaming and crying."
I don't necessarily like this quote but it is really sad and important to the story so i like that. ]]> 2018-11-14 16:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304386019 2021bgreenwood https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304494739 “We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we had already finished. He was shocked and looked around to see if we had done something else with the food.”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I like this part just cause the imagery made me chuckle]]> 2018-11-14 19:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/304494739 2021jgumpert https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/305326058 2018-11-16 16:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/305326058 2021bgreenwood https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/305426545 2018-11-16 19:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/edesmond/hpx2cmve7a9c/wish/305426545