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“I understood then that when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing you miss can fill.”
― Indian Horse
― Indian Horse
“The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.”
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
“I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world.”
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
“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.”
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
― A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
“As it does today, malaria played a huge role in the past—a role unlike that of other diseases, and arguably larger. When Europeans brought smallpox and influenza to the Americas, they set off epidemics: sudden outbursts that shot through Indian towns and villages, then faded. Malaria, by contrast, became endemic, an ever-present, debilitating presence in the landscape. Socially speaking, malaria—along with another mosquito-borne disease, yellow fever—turned the Americas upside down. Before these maladies arrived, the most thickly inhabited terrain north of Mexico was what is now the southeastern United States, and the wet forests of Mesoamerica and Amazonia held millions of people. After malaria and yellow fever, these previously salubrious areas became inhospitable. Their former inhabitants fled to safer lands; Europeans who moved into the emptied real estate often did not survive a year.”
― 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
― 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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