Quotes of the Week: 'The Real Hero Here Is Amanda.'
Amanda Berry screamed and crawled her way to freedom on Monday.
May 11, 2013— -- intro: After Amanda Berry's brave bolt to freedom on Monday, the world learned of the alleged horrors endured by Berry and two other women who spent a decade as captives in a Cleveland home. The overjoyed mother of Gina DeJesus told ABC News she had known her daughter's alleged abductor for years and had some surprising words for him. Click through to see the quotes that made news this week.
quicklist: 1title: 'The Real Hero Here Is Amanda. She's the One That Got This Rolling.'text: On Tuesday, police lauded Amanda Berry as a "real hero" for breaking free free after 10 years of captivity and rescuing herself and two other women held as prisoners in a Cleveland house.
Berry's bolt to freedom Monday night revealed a shocking case of three women abducted as long as 11 years ago and held in a modest house where neighbors and relatives never suspected anything was wrong.
"The real hero here is Amanda. She's the one that got this rolling. We're following her lead," Cleveland Police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said at a press conference on Tuesday. "Without her we wouldn't be here today."
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quicklist: 2title: 'I Would Hug Him and I Would Say, 'God Bless You.''text: The mother of Gina DeJesus, whom Ariel Castro allegedly abducted and kept as a sex slave in his Cleveland home for a decade, had a surprising answer when asked what she would say to Castro.
"I would hug him and I would say, 'God bless you.' I would say, 'God bless you,' and I'd hug him. I did not hate him. I forgave him years ago. I said it: I forgive whoever done it, just let her go," Nancy Ruiz told "20/20" anchor David Muir in an exclusive interview Thursday.
"Because you know what?" Ruiz added. "When you start to hate a person, that eats you up. I don't have time for that. I have to be, you know, I want to be happy, like I am now."
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quicklist: 3title: 'We, as a Family, Have a Renewed Faith and a Renewed Hope.'text: For Karen Bobo, whose daughter disappeared in 2011, the emergence of three women in Cleveland who had been missing for a decade has energized her two-year search for Holly Bobo.
"We, as a family, have a renewed faith and a renewed hope that with community efforts, we do expect to find Holly and I do ask everyone to please take a close look at your neighbors," Karen Bobo said Wednesday.
Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo, 20, disappeared April 13, 2011, when a man in camouflage dragged her into the woods near her home in rural Decatur County, about three hours from Nashville. Her brother Clint, 25, saw her go into the woods, but mistakenly believed the man was her boyfriend. There are no suspects in her disappearance.
The events in Cleveland have stirred conflicting emotions among the families of missing persons, ranging from hope to fear, and encouraged advocates that the media attention will inspire families to become the driving force behind the police investigations.
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quicklist: 4title: 'I Said Years Ago I'd Rather Get Death Than Life.'text: Shortly after Jodi Arias was found guilty Wednesday of the first-degree murder of her ex-boyfriend, she told a local TV station that she would "rather get death than life" in prison.
"I said years ago I'd rather get death than life and that still is true today," Arias told KSAZ-TV. "I believe death is the ultimate freedom, so I'd rather just have my freedom as soon as I can get it."
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