Amanda Knox Quotes

I cannot handle dull, lazy, morose people. I have been like that since childhood.

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

I'm a tomorrow's person. I don't collect memorabilia.

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want.

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.

My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.

I am not hurt.

No, I wasn't a bad kid. I was always intelligent, and strong-minded, and outgoing, like I am now.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with. The challenge is accessing pain, angst, depression. . . It's more exciting because it gives me somewhere to go and allows me to tap into a part of myself that everyone can relate to.

Donald Trump doesn't think that he's deficient. Trump doesn't think that he's lacking. Trump doesn't think he needs advisers to tell him what he thinks. Trump is supremely, eminently confident.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

Outward appearances mean everything.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won't be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live.