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
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We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.
Afterlife
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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 of total fulfillment, when every…
Been
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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 not quite fixed to the…
All
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In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.
Air
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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
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I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.
Find
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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
All
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I know firsthand how critical support systems are.
Critical
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I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.
Afraid
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I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.
Afraid
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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
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Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
Brings
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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
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Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.
Funny
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Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
Choices
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Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
Anymore
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After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
Begin
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I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
Change
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I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
Felt
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