"I didn’t decide not to hate because I’m a good person, I decided not to hate because hating would have finished the job they’d started so successfully."

"He told us that he was expecting me to want to kill him, which he said would be justice since he had killed my mother."

"I said that it was my forgiveness to give and that what he decided to do with it was up to him."

"I think the press particularly expect people like me to be angry and unforgiving but the truth is I have never felt any animosity towards my captors."

"I knew that if something didn’t change I would be in the graveyard, dead from a broken heart, next to my little daughter."

"I refused to be pigeonholed as a grim faced victim, although this was the angle many photographers and journalists wanted."

"The Huikahi Restorative Circle helped me go places I’ve never been before, take steps I’ve never taken."

"I wanted to go to court for justice – not revenge."