“He was floating with his head down, blood streaming from a bullet hole in the back of his neck.”
― A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
― A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
“Reading for writers is like training for athletes.”
― A Long Walk to Water
― A Long Walk to Water
“The bag sprang a leak. The leak had to be patched. The patch sprang a leak. The crew patched the patch. Then the bag sprang another leak. The drilling could not go on.”
― A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
― A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
“They patched the bag again. The drilling went on.”
― A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
― A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
“Her sickness came from the water,” the nurse explained. “She should drink only good clean water. If the water is dirty, you should boil it for a count of two hundred before she drinks”
― A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
― A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
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