18 Quotes by Jill Carroll

They treated me very well, like a guest given good food, kept safe, treated very, very well.

At any rate, fearing retribution from my captors, I did not speak freely. Out of fear, I said I wasn't threatened. In fact, I was threatened many times.

It stays on for about an hour and a half and then goes out for a few hours. Back in October, we would get three or four hours at a time.

It was like falling off a cliff for three months, waiting to hit the ground.

I just want to say how much I'm overwhelmed by how wonderful the paper has been to my family.

I'm just happy to be free. I just want to be with my family.

I gave a TV interview to the Iraqi Islamic Party shortly after my release. The party had promised me the interview would never be aired on television, and they broke their word.

Iraqis in the street are saying that the Shiite-dominated government planned it that way. The elections gave people hope for an improved life, but immediately after the vote, the quality of life declined.

All I ever wanted to be was a foreign correspondent. It seemed the right time to try to make it happen.