Amanda Lindhout
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A House in the Sky
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40 editions
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2013
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A House in the Sky: A Memoir
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“In my mind, I built stairways. At the end of the stairways, I imagined rooms. These were high, airy places with big windows and a cool breeze moving through. I imagined one room opening brightly onto another room until I'd built a house, a place with hallways and more staircases. I built many houses, one after another, and those gave rise to a city -- a calm, sparkling city near the ocean, a place like Vancouver. I put myself there, and that's where I lived, in the wide-open sky of my mind. I made friends and read books and went running on a footpath in a jewel-green park along the harbour. I ate pancakes drizzled in syrup and took baths and watched sunlight pour through trees. This wasn't longing, and it wasn't insanity. It was relief. It got me through.”
― A House in the Sky
― A House in the Sky
“By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.”
― A House in the Sky
― A House in the Sky
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