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.“

“It's choice that makes us human.”

“My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.”

“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”

“I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.”

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”

“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”

“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.”

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

“Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald”

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

“I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.”

“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”

“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

“You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.”

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”

“There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?”

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.”