"After being in captivity for so long, I……" — Amanda Lindhout
"After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada."
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49 Quotes by Amanda Lindhout
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I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip…
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We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.
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Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant…
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I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe…
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In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.
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I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at…
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I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.
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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
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I know firsthand how critical support systems are.
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I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.
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I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.
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Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to…
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