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All Quotes by author - Ingrid Betancourt

" After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope. "

" A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye. "

" As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving. "

" At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.' "

" During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released. "

" Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions. "

" France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart. "

" I am not irresponsible. "

" I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking. "

" I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle. "

" I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president. "

" I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency. "

" I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come. "

" I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object. "

" I don't want to be submerged by depression. "

" I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity. "

" I have shed many tears of pain and indignation. "

" I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive. "

" I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time. "

" I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion. "

" I love Colombia's military. I love my country. "

" In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness. "

" In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation. "

" In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations. "

" I never say no to an ice cream. "

" In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life. "

" In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage. "

" In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions. "

" I owe everything to France. "

" I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris. "

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