A Stolen Life Quotes

“I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.”
― Jaycee Dugard, 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, 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, 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, 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, A Stolen Life

“Love is not part time and its not conditional. I learned this from my mom.”
― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life

“Love is the easy part; it's the living without the love you need is hard.”
― Jaycee Dugard, 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, A Stolen Life

“A light that I thought had been extinguished was slowly coming back to life.”
― Jaycee Dugard, 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, A Stolen Life

“Life's adventure is important.”
― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life

“Ask yourself, "what would you do to survive?”
― Jaycee Dugard, 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, A Stolen Life

“Is life worth living simply because you live, or is it worth more if you make life happen?”
― Jaycee Dugard, 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, 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, A Stolen Life

“Even if it is just one thing or person you have to be thankful for, that is enough.”
― Jaycee Dugard, 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, A Stolen Life

“She reminds me of a turtle; you can never quite know wha ta turtle is thinking.”
― Jaycee Dugard, 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, 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, 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, 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, A Stolen Life

“My trust and hope were indeed put in the wrong person(s), but nevertheless it still lived.”
― Jaycee Dugard, 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, 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, A Stolen Life

“Life is so uncontrollable. It just continues and we just ride the wave it creates.

~Allissa”
― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life

“I could not have gotten through my ordeal without believing that someday my life would make sense. Life’s adventure is important. It is important to live each day to its fullest, whatever life brings you.

~Allissa”
― Jaycee Dugard , A Stolen Life

“I’m sorry. Sorry for everything I can’t be. Sorry I can’t be what he wants me to be. I don’t even know exactly what that is. I’m just sorry.”
― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life

“I have to choose to believe they will both be okay and realize that sometimes when we shelter our children too much, we are really protecting ourselves.”
― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life