“I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“We live in a world where we rarely speak out and when someone does, often nobody is there to listen.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Hearts become attached as easily as they become broken and our minds are left sifting through the pieces, which I fear take a lifetime to put back together to achieve any form of acceptance.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Love is not part time and its not conditional. I learned this from my mom.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Love is the easy part; it's the living without the love you need is hard.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“There are moments in which all of us need to have a backbone and feel that we have the right to say no to adults if we believe they are doing the wrong thing. You must find your voice and not be afraid to speak up.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“A light that I thought had been extinguished was slowly coming back to life.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Ask yourself, "what would you do to survive?”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“The fact is it happened. It's over now. I do not live my life constantly wishing that I could change the past.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Our relationship was built on a house of cards. One good blow and you find the pieces scatter in the wind quite easily.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Is life worth living simply because you live, or is it worth more if you make life happen?”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I've learned that verbal abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse and take longer to heal from.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“She reminds me of a turtle; you can never quite know wha ta turtle is thinking.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I love metaphors and she has come up with the idea of lighting candles to symbolize my past, present, and future. My past and present were the two candles we started with; she would ask me what I would like to start with or deal with today. I would light up either my past or my present depending on the answer. During the last few sessions we've used the candles I've noticed my past melting more and more and becoming duller and duller in light.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Even if it is just one thing or person you have to be thankful for, that is enough.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“For nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the ind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I am not proud of that today, but I did what I had always done... tried to survive an impossible situation.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“T. S. Eliot once wrote, “I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Families are like snowflakes: they come in many shapes and sizes and no two are the same. And like a snowflake, they are very delicate and must be protected and guarded from elements that threaten to destroy their precarious balance.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I am so lucky and blessed for all the wonderful things that I do have. Life is too short to think about all the things you don’t have.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“My trust and hope were indeed put in the wrong person(s), but nevertheless it still lived.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“did I have? He controlled everything. He said Nancy”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
Jaycee Dugard
Born place: in Anaheim, California, The United States
Born date May 3, 1980
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“We fell in love. We pursued that love sexually and emotionally. I don't think he's as comfortable or as open with his sexuality as I am with mine, so he ended the relationship. It was a beautiful thing, like the most perfect healthy colorful blooming flower, while it lasted, it was like a flower from heaven. Now it's like a bomb went off in my heart. I'll probably never be the same.”
― James Frey, quote from Bright Shiny Morning
“Tolya answered their questions and he puffed up those men with the notion they were doing good, embroidering their task with a lot of long words like dedication and sacrifice that reminded me of those odd telegrams from the Almighty that would burst into our silent worship at home.
I don't trust those words or the people that use them. Maybe I'm simple, but they ring in my ears with the same dull thud you get when a stone bangs against an empty coffee can...where Tolya said he saw holy men preserving the lost jewels of human knowledge, all I saw was a team of burglars getting ready to shoot their accomplices.”
― Marcel Theroux, quote from Far North
“I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from Wolf Willow
“The curriculum for the education of statesmen at the time of Plato included arithmetic, geometry, solid geometry, astronomy, and music-all of which, the Pythagorean Archytas tells us, fell under the general definition of "mathematics." According to legend, when Alexander the Great asked his teacher Menaechmus (who is reputed to have discovered the curves of the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola) for a shortcut to geometry, he got the reply: "O King, for traveling over the country there are royal roads and roads for common citizens; but in geometry there is one road for all.”
― quote from The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
“Sitting for an hour without reading material meant he had to think.”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Fade Away
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