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

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

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

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

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

I think I'll move to Australia. — Judith Viorst

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some days are like that. Even in Australia. — Judith Viorst

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

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

[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

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

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired. — Judith Viorst

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

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

A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent
if he acts normal. — Judith Viorst

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

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

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

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