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“Life knocks everybody down. What counts is how you stand up afterwards,” she said. “You are nothing more than a schoolyard bully, and I am not afraid to stand up to you.

“I am living proof of your failure … I am still here."

“The joint in my middle finger had to be fused, and it is indeed an injury I have longed to show you,” she said.

And then she flipped him the bird with two hands.

Double barrel. People in the courtroom laughed, and the judge was none too pleased, but Emily Lyons did not give a shit.

"I have more guts in my broken little finger than you have in your body,” she said.

And then Emily Lyons did the only thing to do in that situation.

“You damaged my body, but you did not instill the fear in me you hoped for," she said. “But you did not get the silence you longed for. I found a voice inside me I didn't know existed, and you're the one who brought it out."

Emily wanted a reaction. She challenged Rudolph.

“Look at me, Eric,” she said. “Do I look afraid?

Rudolph had agreed to plead guilty to save his own life. She goaded him, defiant.

“It's easy to be brave when holding the good end of a shotgun; or in this case, the remote control of a bomb," Lyons said to him. "When it was your turn to face death, you weren't so brave anymore."

“We tend to think of a terrorist as someone in a foreign country who dresses differently, looks different and speaks a different language,” Lyons said. “Thank you for drawing attention to the home-grown terrorists in our own backyard”

He was being sentenced in connection with the bomb that maimed her, that killed police officer Sande Sanderson. She spoke to Rudolph directly.