“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
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“She had brillant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas—not consuming those of others.”
― Paulo Freire, quote from Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet, probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these loveable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.”
― Chuck Klosterman, quote from Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“I ordered a cheeseburger and a beer from a waitress who looked as though she wanted to be in one of those want-to-get-away? commercials. She called me hon. I love when a waitress calls me hon.”
― Harlan Coben, quote from The Woods
“That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Relentless
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