Quotes from Summer Sisters

Judy Blume ·  416 pages

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“Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are. ”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."

"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters



“A person without curiosity may as well be dead.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters



“You weren’t always born to the right parents. And parents didn’t necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“You can’t deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“Some people never get over their first loves. They spend their whole lives trying to recapture the thrill. Sometimes, after fifty years they get back together. They meet at some reunion or other and realize they were meant to be together.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“He’s not like anything. He’s a person who just happens to have been born with something he can’t control. It could have happened to you. It could have happened to any of us. So the next time you see someone in a chair, someone spastic, just imagine if that were you! The same you who’s standing here now, but your mind’s been trapped inside a body you can’t control!”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


“forever. Fifteen years ago she’d woven ribbons through”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters



“Zillions of puppies … that’s what they got up in heaven. The softest dogs you’ve ever seen. And no poop. I don’t know what happens to the poop but it’s not in heaven. Because heaven’s clean. All those fluffy white clouds. And these zillions of puppies just jumping from cloud to cloud and you get to run and chase them all day.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters


About the author

Judy Blume
Born place: in Elizabeth, New Jersey, The United States
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