They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky Quotes

“Family became so important to me. Without it I was like a tree alone in a desert.”
― Alephonsion Deng, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

“We’d never handled guns so when we saw a person handle it and it went bang, we knew that thing killed. We called it the harmful stick. We learned quickly that if somebody points the stick at you, you die.”
― Alephonsion Deng, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

“The body is like an engine. When the engine is shut down, there is no way you can even think of taking care of yourself. When you have food, the mind can take care of all those things.”
― Benjamin Ajak, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

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― Benson Deng, They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

“You can tell if a person has come from the war: they are haunted from all the killing they have seen. It”
― Benjamin Ajak, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

“Usually I was the one who went in and tried to break that up. We didn’t want that. We saw that the kids who were crying and not eating were dying.”
― Benjamin Ajak, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan