Kateřina Tučková > Quotes

“Domov není tam, kde člověk vyrostl, to si nemysli. Domov je tam, kde Tě lidé vítají, když vstoupíš.”
― Kateřina Tučková, Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch

“Her pension was laughable, that was true—after twenty years of demotions and working for minimum wage, there was no place for money to come from, but she was free. For the price of having given up.”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta

“I can’t help it, but I have the feeling that apart from those two or three years with Uncle Karel, my mom lived a completely unfulfilled and futile life.”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta

“Víš jak se jim uleví, když hned na prahu věří, že mám zvláštní moc? A čemu se vzájemně vyhneme s těmi, co by se přede mnou hlídali říct na plnou hubu, co mají za potíž? Říká se, že víra uzdravuje. A oni věří, že jim pomůžu, a to se pak taky splní. Už tomu rozumíš? To není podvod, to je chytrá pomoc.”
― Kateřina Tučková, Žítkovské bohyně

“Justice does not exist. Until recently, she had believed that it did and had thought it was somehow related to a person’s degree of guilt. Until recently, she had thought that in the end, truth would prevail. How wrong she had been!”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta

“If you wish to inflame man’s desire and so aid conception, strip bark from the trunk of a young oak, in spring when the leaves are not yet sprouting and the sap is rising. Grind to a powder, add pieces of Maral root, pulp of birch catkins, and two teaspoons of caltrop leaves infused in ten drops of vinegar. Mix with lard, bring to a boil, and leave to congeal. Rub on your husband in the evening. Twice a day have him drink tea decocted from caltrop stems. If this is too hot, mix it with spirits.”
― Kateřina Tučková, The Last Goddess

“Home isn’t where one grows up; don’t make the mistake of thinking that. Home is where they welcome you when you walk in the door. And that’s something none of us here in Brno have experienced.”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta

“What had started out as a quest to liberate the racially pure German people and provide them with Lebensraum, living space, had turned into a battle against Jewish Bolshevism and forced de-Germanization”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta

“Human faith in whatever, provided it is strong and unshakeable faith, is tremendously powerful.”
― Kateřina Tučková, The Last Goddess

“Věda končí tam, kde začíná já.”
― Kateřina Tučková