Hope and despair in captivity from "summary" of House In The Sky by Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett
As I sat in that dark room, my body aching and my spirit broken, I felt a glimmer of hope flicker within me. It was a fragile thing, easily drowned out by the despair that loomed over me like a heavy cloud. But still, it persisted, a tiny flame in the darkness of my captivity.
Day after day, I clung to that hope, nurturing it like a precious jewel. It was all I had to hold onto in those long, torturous hours when my captors showed no mercy and my future seemed bleak. In those moments of despair, when I felt like giving up, it was the thought of that small spark of hope that kept me going.
But hope was a double-edged sword. For every moment of light it brought into my life, there was an equal measure of darkness waiting to extinguish it. The more I allowed myself to hope, the harder the despair hit me when it inevitably came crashi...
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