I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
The #MeToo campaign is monumental. It is giving a voice to so many too scared to speak out before. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“. . when we have passed our great test, we are then given opportunities to reach out to other people. We are able to… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“Well get a furious weapon. Look how the springs are whirling round and you with your hat askew, without time to catch your breath… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“... I have ceased to care about anything. I have no personal ambition, or even the desire that people call me nice, or pretty,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don't do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“I also believe in faith. Faith in a loving and kind heavenly Father who will always care about me. Faith that my worth will… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“I didn't understand most of what he was saying. I should have had to understand what he was saying. I was still so young.… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
It is wrong for any person to ever judge someone in any situation saying, 'Well, why didn't you try to run? Why didn't you… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“When we are faced with a challenge, it is very easy to be mad or upset. But when we have passed our great test,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
