A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Man and the Natural World Quotes

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Quote #10

When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who look and listen to it. She said, "In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion." That night I wanted the sky to talk to me. (17.71)

After spending all that time fighting and killing, Ishmael is finally ready to become the person he was again—someone who listened to the natural world and learned from it.