My Story

Key Takeaways

Under Consideration — to be added.

Connections

• Resilience · Faith — themes grounded in the author’s account of survival; the ideological-family-tree tag reflects how religious conviction shaped her ability to endure and recover.

Highlights

From Roam

Roam page metadata — Author: Elizabeth Smart · Reading Status: Books Read · Source: https://medium.com/@kwharrison13/2018-in-books-part-ii-c4f812a37bd5 · Recommended By: BYU Bookstore · Tags: #Books

• ==Highlighted Quotes==
  • Advice from her mother after she was rescued: ‘Elizabeth, what these people have done to you is terrible, and there aren’t words strong enough to describe how wicked and evil they are. They’ve stolen nine months of your life from you that you will never get back. But the best punishment you could ever give them is to be happy, is to live your life, is to move forward and do all of the things that you want to do. Because by feeling sorry for yourself and holding onto the past and reliving it over and over and over again, that’s only allowing them to steal more of your life away from you and they don’t deserve that. They don’t deserve another single second more of your life. So you be happy and you move forward.” #Parenting #Regret