“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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“Revenge is living well, without you. -Joyce Carol Oates”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“At high school I was never comfortable for a minute. I did not know about Lonnie. Before an exam, she got icy hands and palpitations, but I was close to despair at all times. When I was asked a question in class, any simple little question at all, my voice was apt to come out squeaky, or else hoarse and trembling. When I had to go to the blackboard I was sure—even at a time of the month when this could not be true—that I had blood on my skirt. My hands became slippery with sweat when they were required to work the blackboard compass. I could not hit the ball in volleyball; being called upon to perform an action in front of others made all my reflexes come undone. I hated Business Practice because you had to rule pages for an account book, using a straight pen, and when the teacher looked over my shoulder all the delicate lines wobbled and ran together. I hated Science; we perched on stools under harsh lights behind tables of unfamiliar, fragile equipment, and were taught by the principal of the school, a man with a cold, self-relishing voice—he read the Scriptures every morning—and a great talent for inflicting humiliation. I hated English because the boys played bingo at the back of the room while the teacher, a stout, gentle girl, slightly cross-eyed, read Wordsworth at the front. She threatened them, she begged them, her face red and her voice as unreliable as mine. They offered burlesqued apologies and when she started to read again they took up rapt postures, made swooning faces, crossed their eyes, flung their hands over their hearts. Sometimes she would burst into tears, there was no help for it, she had to run out into the hall. Then the boys made loud mooing noises; our hungry laughter—oh, mine too—pursued her. There was a carnival atmosphere of brutality in the room at such times, scaring weak and suspect people like me.”
― Alice Munro, quote from Dance of the Happy Shades
“Bootleg miners did what’s called robbing back, working the mine the wrong way, back to front, chipping away the coal pillars that were left to support the mine roof. They took out the pillars, collapsing the mines. It made it impossible to stop the fire when the government filled the shafts with fly ash in the seventies, and again in the eighties.” Cate”
― Lisa Scottoline, quote from Dirty Blonde
“It's funny about paths and rivers," he mused. "You see them go by, and suddenly you feel upset and want to be somewhere else--wherever the path or the river is going, perhaps.”
― Tove Jansson, quote from Comet in Moominland
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