Amanda Knox > Quotes

“I like authors who experiment with narrative and delve into very specific conditions within their characters in order to expose universal truths about humanity. After reading, I like to feel that I’ve experienced, learned, identified, been challenged and been provided with insight.”
― Amanda Knox

“At twenty, I still had a childlike view of people. I looked for the saving graces in everyone. I thought people were naturally empathetic, that they felt ashamed and guilty when they mistreated someone else. That faith in humanity was being picked away, but I held to the belief that people were basically good. And that good people would believe me and set me free.”
― Amanda Knox, Waiting to Be Heard

“I was young enough to think that insecurity disappeared with maturity.”
― Amanda Knox, Waiting to Be Heard

“I am not angry or ashamed about the traumas I've endured, at this point, I couldn't imagine myself without them. I wouldn't erase them from my past because they are my greatest source of strength.”
― Amanda Knox

“day’s newspaper into a flower, which the guards brought to me. But I was focused on Guede, who was”
― Amanda Knox, Waiting to Be Heard

“No one can stop you from being kind.”
― Amanda Knox

“When well-intentioned people come up to me and say 'I can't imagine what you've been through!' I simply say, 'Try. We're all going through something, we're all carrying something, and the gulf that separates us from one another is bridgeable through empathy. Empathy is a tool of the imagination. You may not have lived someone else's worst moment, but you've lived your own.”
― Amanda Knox

“You may not have lived someone else's worst moment, but you've lived your own.”
― Amanda Knox

“I spent the next 1,427 nights in prison for a crime I did not commit.”
― Amanda Knox, Waiting to Be Heard