Amanda Lindhout famous quotes

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 mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Essence #Mind #Wire

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

#War #Long #People

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Planes

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Choices #Want

Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Fit

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Home #Long #Captivity

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Life Changing #Gains #Gaining Confidence

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Thinking #People #Unusual

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Real #Dark #Weight

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

#Men #Southern #Captivity

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Pain #Home #Unique

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

#Mother #Brother #Home

I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Bullets #Not Afraid #Mortar

We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Afterlife #Alive

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 expectation has been met and the world is perfect.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Perfect #Expectations #Effort

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 point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Fate #Waiting #Events

In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Air #Rivers #Paradise

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 accurately, my quivering bank balance, accessed through foreign ATMs—would give out, and I’d fall to the ground.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Fall #Knowing #Giving

I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Healing #Thinking #World

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Thinking #Spirit #Capacity

I know firsthand how critical support systems are.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Support #Critical

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Space #Elevators

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

#Recovery #Long #One Day At A Time