American - Educator | July 9, 1987 -
I think that there was a lot of fantasy projected onto me, and that resulted in a reappropriation and re-characterization of who I am.
Amanda Knox
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The only thing I can do is continue to defend myself.
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I'm definitely not going back to Italy willingly. They'll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and screaming into a prison that I don't deserve to be in.
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I am a marked person, and no one who's unmarked is going to understand that. It's very intimidating. I don't even know what my place is anymore. What's my role in society? Who am I, after everybody has branded me?
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I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.
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I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early.
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What I started to read and most enjoyed while I was a student was an Italian edition of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.'
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I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.
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That is the thing that I was scared of - that I would know intellectually that there's something to glean out of life, but that I would be so broken that I wouldn't care.
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I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.
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I've gained a seriousness that has to do with a certain perspective, a gratitude for being able to see the importance of things. And that lends itself a gravity to everything. And that is something that I sort of carry as a weight but a good weight inside of me.
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One of the things that I somewhat realized, especially right after I was convicted, was that sometimes really, really horrible things happen for no reason.
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