Radiance of Tomorrow
Ishmael Beah
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.”
“Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.”
“But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was more violent than making them believe they deserved less and less every day?”
“It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.”
“I learned that you are not free until you stop others from making you feel worthless. Because if you do not, you will eventually accept that you are worthless.”
“I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.”
“This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.”
“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.”
“You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell”
“Poverty is worse than nightmares. You can wake up from nightmares.”
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Book Keywords:
transition, quiet, love, stories, fate, silence, pain, hope, life, free-will, truth, destiny, history, attentiveness, solitude
