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…

- Amanda Lindhout

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

- Amanda Lindhout

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

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

- Amanda Lindhout

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 …

- Amanda Lindhout

I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

- Amanda Lindhout

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

- Amanda Lindhout

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

- Amanda Lindhout

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,…

- Amanda Lindhout