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Judith Viorst quotes: I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

Judith Viorst quotes: Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Judith Viorst quotes: Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Judith Viorst quotes: For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

Judith Viorst quotes: Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Judith Viorst quotes: I think I'll move to Australia.

I think I'll move to Australia.

Judith Viorst quotes: It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image. - Colette

It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image. - Colette

Judith Viorst quotes: Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

Judith Viorst quotes: One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Judith Viorst quotes: We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

Judith Viorst quotes: It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.

Judith Viorst quotes: Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

Judith Viorst quotes: Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

Judith Viorst quotes: Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Judith Viorst quotes: Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

Judith Viorst quotes: Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Judith Viorst quotes: Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

Judith Viorst quotes: Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

Judith Viorst quotes: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.

Judith Viorst quotes: I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.

I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.

Judith Viorst quotes: Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

Judith Viorst quotes: If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

Judith Viorst quotes: There is no ache more Deadly than the striving to be oneself. - Yevgeniy Vinokurov

There is no ache more Deadly than the striving to be oneself. - Yevgeniy Vinokurov

Judith Viorst quotes: We love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

We love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

Judith Viorst quotes: When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

Judith Viorst quotes: Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

Judith Viorst quotes: For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.

For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.

Judith Viorst quotes: There comes a time when we aren't allowed not to know.

There comes a time when we aren't allowed not to know.

Judith Viorst quotes: Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.

Judith Viorst quotes: Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

Judith Viorst quotes: Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

Judith Viorst quotes: Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

Judith Viorst quotes: [On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

Judith Viorst quotes: Many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

Many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

Judith Viorst quotes: Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

Judith Viorst quotes: You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Judith Viorst quotes: Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

Judith Viorst quotes: A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescentif he acts normal.

A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent
if he acts normal.

Judith Viorst quotes: Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

Judith Viorst quotes: No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

Judith Viorst quotes: Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

Judith Viorst quotes: I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.