Amanda Knox Quotes

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

There have been bumps, but everything has happened for a reason - maybe apart from the loss of some loved ones - and we have always tried to find a positive from it.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

Tragedy brings change, and that's what I'm interested in most - how people plunge into change and try to fight, then eventually move with it with grace.

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

When you overcome a profound loss, or there's some catalyst in your life that shifts everything, if you're able to take it in stride and heal, it can make for much more three-dimensional and empathetic people.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.