Amanda Lindhout Quotes

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• I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my… Banana
• We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine. Afterlife
• Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every… Been
• I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the… All
• In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy. Air
• 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, more… Accessed
• I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world. Find
• I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. All
• I know firsthand how critical support systems are. Critical
• I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in. Afraid
• I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars. Afraid
• Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey. Brother
• Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. Brings
• I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand. Long
• Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me. Funny
• Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be. Choices
• Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in. Anymore
• After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada. Begin
• I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence. Change
• I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible. Felt

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