Amanda Knox is an American woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy in 2007. Even though there was a distinct lack of evidence tying Knox to the crime, the Italian Supreme Court found Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, guilty of the murder. Much of the prosecution’s case against Knox rested on the allegedly strange, guilty behavior she exhibited after Kercher’s death—behavior the public deemed not in line with typical responses to grief and trauma. Gladwell sees Knox as an example of a “mismatched” person, someone whose outer behaviors and demeanor do not align with their inner feelings or with how society expects them to behave.
Amanda Knox Quotes in Talking to Strangers
The Talking to Strangers quotes below are all either spoken by Amanda Knox or refer to Amanda Knox. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“There is no trace of me in the room where Meredith was murdered,” Knox says, at the end of the Amanda Knox documentary. “But you’re trying to find the answer in my eyes.…You’re looking at me. Why? These are my eyes. They’re not objective evidence.”
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Amanda Knox Quotes in Talking to Strangers
The Talking to Strangers quotes below are all either spoken by Amanda Knox or refer to Amanda Knox. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
Quotes
“There is no trace of me in the room where Meredith was murdered,” Knox says, at the end of the Amanda Knox documentary. “But you’re trying to find the answer in my eyes.…You’re looking at me. Why? These are my eyes. They’re not objective evidence.”
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