Quotes from Amanda Knox

I have been in an experience where I thought everything that I had hoped for in my life was taken away from me, and I had to redefine what mattered.

I was not aware of a ton of the stuff that was being said about me out in the world since I wasn't able to get British or American headlines from my prison cell in Perugia. But I was aware that in the courtroom, I was being called a succubus, a man-eater, 'Foxy Knoxy.'

To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived.

When you meet me and hang out with me, I might come across as a very upbeat, driven person. I don't come across as someone who is wounded.

I'm working on getting tougher with self-defence classes.

Life lived somehow for love is life never wasted.

There are those who believe in my innocence and those who believe in my guilt. There is no in-between.

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.

Everyone deals with tragedy in his own way.

I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.

Before Italy, I had a happy life.

When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.

My family's the most important thing to me right now, and I just want to go be with them right now.

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake.

I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,' an idea of a person, exists, and I'm constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public's imagination for so long.

As this case has progressed, the evidence that the prosecution has claimed exists against me has been proven less and less and less. And all that has happened is that they've filled these holes with speculation.

I know I have not always been understandable and that I was guided for too long by stubborn naivety, which created confusion.

I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.

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.

I'm always trying to feel less stress.

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.'