Amanda Lindhout quotes

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long. (Amanda Lindhout)
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
Amanda Lindhout
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
Amanda Lindhout
Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
Amanda Lindhout
Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.
Amanda Lindhout
Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.
Amanda Lindhout
Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
Amanda Lindhout
A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
Amanda Lindhout
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
Amanda Lindhout
Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.
Amanda Lindhout
I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world. (Amanda Lindhout)
I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
Amanda Lindhout
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.
Amanda Lindhout
Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.
Amanda Lindhout
I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.
Amanda Lindhout
I am so proud to be a Canadian.
Amanda Lindhout
I know firsthand how critical support systems are.
Amanda Lindhout
The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.
Amanda Lindhout
With awareness come responsibility and choice.
Amanda Lindhout
It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
Amanda Lindhout
The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia - that type of mentality - that's what I had to deal with in captivity. (Amanda Lindhout)
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.
Amanda Lindhout
Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
Amanda Lindhout
I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.
Amanda Lindhout
I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
Amanda Lindhout