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Quotes from A Long Walk to Water — Linda Sue Park

born 1960 United States

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11 quotes

Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

A Long Walk to Water (2010)

One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.

A Long Walk to Water (2010)

How could memories feel so close and so far away at the same time?

A Long Walk to Water (2010)

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

A Long Walk to Water (2010)

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

A Long Walk to Water (2010)

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?

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He was floating with his head down, blood streaming from a bullet hole in the back of his neck.

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More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.

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They patched the bag again. The drilling went on.

A Long Walk to Water (2010)

And one day at a time, the group made its way to Kenya. More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.

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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 (2010)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Linda Sue Park (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.