“so we were playing all this game then and thinking that to be a soldier was to be the best thing in the world because gun is looking so powerful and the men in movie are looking so powerful and strong when they are killing people,but I am knowing now that to be a soldier is only to be weak and not strong, and to have no food to eat and not to eat whatever you want, and also to have people making you do thing that you are not wanting to do and not to be doing whatever you are wanting which is what they are doing in movie. But I am only knowing this now because I am soldier now.” WarChildhoodChild SoldiersBeasts Of No Nation Book:Beasts of No Nation Source: Beasts of No Nation
“And now the woman is praying to God............... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country.” WarGodChild Soldiers Book:Beasts of No Nation Source: Beasts of No Nation
“When I am saying all of this, she is just looking at me and I am seeing water in her eye. So I am saying to her, if I am telling this to you it will be making you to think that I am some sort of beast or devil. Amy is never saying anything when I am saying this, but the water is just shining in her eye. And I am saying to her, fine. I am all of this thing. I am all of this thing, but I am also having mother once, and she is loving me.” WarChildhood TraumaMother S LoveChild Soldier Author:uzodinma iweala
“I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world.” WarDarknessSunChild Soldiers Book:Beasts of No Nation Source: Beasts of No Nation