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.“

“Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.”

“A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.”

“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”

“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”

“Everyone deserves a happy ending.”

“All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.”

“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”

“My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?”

“I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.”

“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”

“If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.”

“You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.”

“The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story”

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”

“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.”

“That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.”

“You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.”

“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”

“Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.”

“It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.”

“To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.”

“There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.”

“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”

“I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.”

“What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.”

“Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.”

“There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.”

“You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.”

“The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.”