Amanda Knox Quotes

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them.

Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.

I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.

Life is a crisis - so what!

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.