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Elizabeth Smart

Elizabeth Ann Gilmour (née Smart) (born November 3, 1987) is an American child safety activist and contributor for ABC News. She first gained national attention at the age of 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee held Smart captive for nine months until she was rescued by authorities on a street in Sandy, Utah.

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It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Happens, Choose, Defines

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

Hold, I Have Learned, Needs, Onto, Smoke

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

Hopeless, Impotent, Tears, Thinking

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

Accurately, Feelings, Language, Music, Talking

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

Desire, Desires, Infested, Menagerie, Obsession

O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?

Destroy, Done, Hate, Peace, Safe, War

Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

Children, Friday, Money, Skewer, Sunday, Time

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.

Forget, Growth, Life, Live, Plants, Want

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

Doors, Hordes, Look, Looks, Oppose, Overcoming

I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning. It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone. Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

Ceiling, Diagonal, Memories, Mouth, Nurse, Taste

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

Change, Nothing, Value, Values

We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.

Achieve, Choose, Grateful, Greatness, Hold, Push

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

Grateful, Knowing, Trying, Worse

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

Coats, Cold, Hungry, Love, Shrivel, Words

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Love, Options, Possessed

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

Bird, Birds, Coats, Moon, Notes, Spring

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Promising, Seduce, Sleep, Tomorrow, Trying

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

Break Off, Fingernails, Looks, Red, Short

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

Choices, Decision, Decisions, Like, Think, Thinking

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Earth, Life, Vanity, Vital, Way

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