Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up.… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next,… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways - occasionally through a… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me. — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in. — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“I'd spent my life believing that people were, at heart, kind and good. This was what the world had shown me. [...] If humans… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms—or,… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“After almost seven months in Baghdad, I set my sights on Somalia. The reasons to do it seemed straightforward. Somalia was a mess. There… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment. — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems. — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
