Jodi Picoult citáty

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„Nejvýše postavený vlk ve smečce není ten, kdo používá brutální sílu. Je to ten, kdo by ji mohl použít, ale rozhodne se to neudělat.“

„Nevím, co ti ten člověk udělal. Vlastně si nejsem jistá, jestli to vědět chci. Ale odpuštění neděláš kvůli někomu jinému. Je to něco, co děláš kvůli sobě. Říká se, že žádný člověk není tak důležitý, aby měl nad námi moc. Říká se ale také, že není dobré se nechat uvěznit v minulosti, protože každý si zaslouží budoucnost.“

„Nevěřím v boha.
Věřím v lidi, v jejich sílu a pomoc, kterou jsou schopni poskytnout jeden druhému, v lidi, kteří touží spolupracovat, ne se hašteřit. Věřím, že výjimečné věci vždycky překryjí ty obyčejné.
Věřím, že pokud má člověk v co doufat - i kdyby to byl jen lepší zítřek -, je to ta nejsilnější droga na této planetě.“

„Historie nejsou jen data, místa a války. Jsou to především lidé, kteří zaplňují volný prostor mezi nimi.“

„Existuje mnoho způsobů, jak někoho zradit.
Člověk ho může za jeho zády pomlouvat.
Může ho záměrně podvést.
Může ho vydat do rukou nepříteli, když mu dotyčný věří.
Může porušit slib.
Otázkou je, jestli když tohle všechno udělá, nezradí i sám sebe?“

„Nemilujete lidi, protože jsou perfektní. Milujete je navzdory skutečnosti, že nejsou.“

„Občas slova nejsou dost velká, aby dokázala obsáhnout všechny pocity, které se do ně člověk snaží vložit.“

„Každý si ale čas od času myslíme, že náš žal je větší než smutek těch ostatních.“

„Mít moc neznamená dělat hrozné věci těm, kdo jsou slabší než ty. Znamená to mít sílu něco takového udělat, ale rozhodnout se, že ne.“

„V nebi i v pekle sedí lidé u stolu plných lahodných jídel, ale nikdo nedokáže ohnout ruce v lokti. Takže všichni v pekle hladoví, protože se nemohou najíst. V nebi jsou ale všichni syti, protože na to, aby se nakrmili navzájem, ruce ohýbat nepotřebují.“

„Aby se člověk stal znovu lidskou bytostí, stačí někdo, kdo vás tak vnímá bez ohledu na to, jak vypadáte.“

“There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.”

“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.”

“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”

“You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.”

“Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.”

“No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.”

“Jacoblike a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.”

“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital… Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.”

“What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?”

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.”

“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”

“Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What’s the point?”

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

“Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.”

“Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

“You can have the best intentions, but the moment there’s a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.”

“And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.”

“Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.”

“People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away?"
I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.”

“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

“Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.”

“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”