Sami and the Time of the Troubles Quotes

“I find a piece of wood that looks like a gun and help Amir find one, too.

"My brother has a real gun," he says.

We run, we hide, we pretend to shoot, we pretend to die. I see my mother at a stall buying flowers, and she frowns at me. She does not like for me to play this game.”
― Florence Parry Heide, Sami and the Time of the Troubles: A Moving Story About a Lebanese Boy in a War-Torn City for Kids

“My name is Sami, and I live in the time of the troubles. It is a time of guns and bombs. It is a time that has lasted all my life, and I am ten years old.”
― Florence Parry Heide, Sami and the Time of the Troubles: A Moving Story About a Lebanese Boy in a War-Torn City for Kids