Devlin Peterson

“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”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

“One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through . . .”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

“He was floating with his head down, blood streaming from a bullet hole in the back of his neck.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

“If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group, have kept his water for himself?”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story