“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
“To me, Madam Yennefer, wisdom includes the ability to turn a deaf ear to foolish or insincere advice.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, quote from Sword of Destiny
“For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from The Annotated Alice
“It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed hands out while all about in that circle attended companies of lesser auxiliaries routed forth into the inordinate day, small owls that crouched silently and stood from foot to foot and tarantulas and solpugas and vinegarroons and the vicious mygale spiders and beaded lizards with mouths black as a chowdog's, deadly to man, and the little desert basilisks that jet blood from their eyes and the small sandvipers like seemly gods, silent and the same, in Jeda, in Babylon. A constellation of ignited eyes that edged the ring of light all bound in a precarious truce before this torch whose brightness had set back the stars in their sockets.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
“Her womanhood went eagerly to meet him.”
― George Gissing, quote from New Grub Street
“The light that moves is not the light. The light that stays is not the light. The true light rose countless sleeps ago. It rose, even in the mouth of birds.”
― André Alexis, quote from Fifteen Dogs
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