Judy Blundell Quotes

I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking. ~ Judy Blundell

I don't have a story," I said. "I'm still waiting for one. ~ Judy Blundell

He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person. ~ Judy Blundell

Darling, I have a tip," Arlene said. "Never, ever wait for a man. ~ Judy Blundell

Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be. ~ Judy Blundell

I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door. ~ Judy Blundell

I took off one of the high-heeled sandals, the white sandals my mother prized, and threw it into the pool. That's when I noticed him. He was on the other side of the pool, dressed in a white shirt and khaki pants. He had lowered the chair until it was flat, and he was lying back on it, face to the night sky, smoking a cigarette. He raised himself on his elbows and looked at the pool like he owned it. "Well?" he said. I didn't say anything ... "Aren't you going to let the other shoe drop?" I took off the other one and threw it in. "My kind of women," he said. ~ Judy Blundell

Loss.
Thats what it was, a hole I could never fill. It would be bottomless. ~ Judy Blundell

I let Wally go yesterday," Mr. Forney said. "I just want you to know that." "You fired him?" "Of course. Fraternizing with hotel guests is cause for dismissal." "But - " "We have high standards for the hotel, Miss Spooner. That includes employees." "Yeah," I said. "I've seen your high standards up close, Mr. Forney. I think you like rolling in your stinky high standards. Especially when you can kick a couple of guests out of the hotel because they have the wrong last name." He ~ Judy Blundell

I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then. ~ Judy Blundell

Darling, I have a tip. Never, ever wait for a man. ~ Judy Blundell

We get our dreams told to us. Girls. Every day. ~ Judy Blundell

It had never occurred to me that I could do something without permission. 'May I' was a way of life for a girl like me. ~ Judy Blundell

But I do know," he continued, "how to salvage an evening for a girl in a party dress." He stood up, bowed. Held out his hand. "May I have this dance?"
"Here? ~ Judy Blundell

That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. ~ Judy Blundell

So here I was. I would live with Joe and Mom. I had no place else to go. Joe would carve the roast on Sundays. He would put up the Christmas tree. ~ Judy Blundell

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return. ~ Judy Blundell

The world is full of places I haven't been. ~ Judy Blundell

When I stood up, my steps were uncertain, as though I were wearing lifts in my shoes. I could feel the air between the soles of my feet and the ground. It was like something important had altered, like gravity, or the air itself. ~ Judy Blundell

Truth, justice ... I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie.
But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war. ~ Judy Blundell

Are you running away?"
"No, not today. ~ Judy Blundell

I breathed in and out, perfume and smoke, perfume and smoke, and we lay like that for a long time, until I heard the seagulls crying, sadder than a funeral, and I knew it was almost morning. ~ Judy Blundell

Just one dance. Just one. That's all I wanted. I know now how you can take one step and you can't stop yourself from taking another. I know now what it means to want. I know it can get you to a place where there's no way out. I know now that there's no such thing as just one. But I didn't know it then. ~ Judy Blundell

Maybe all relationships, friendship, partner, parent and child, were held together by the things you did not say as much as the things you did. The unsaid was the keystone in the arch. Once you kicked it free, you had nothing that held you up. ~ Judy Blundell

What did I owe you, Peter? Truth and justice? If judges would judge, if lawyers wouldn't trick, if reporters would tell what really happened instead of what sold papers. Fat ~ Judy Blundell

When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound. ~ Judy Blundell

My doctor said I had OCD. I couldn't believe it. I had to call him nine times to make sure. ~ Judy Gold

My grandmother always told me: beauty fades but dumb is forever. ~ Judge Judy Sheindlin

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter. ~ Judy Johnson

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage. ~ Judy Davis

A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected. ~ Judy Woodruff

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty. ~ Jenny Han

It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground. ~ Deborah Cox

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously. ~ Judy Holliday

Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage – rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge. ~ Judy Chicago

We are friends for life. When we're together the years fall away. Isn't that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you've come? ~ Judy Blume

Judy, I read that you said your first memory was music. Music that fills up a home. And one day, suddenly the music could escape through a window. For the rest of your life, you had to chase it. ~ Ava Dellaira

I'm not a girl. I'm a hatchet ~ Judy Grahn

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one. ~ Judy Biggert

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.' ~ Judy Woodruff

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle. ~ Judy Davis

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it. ~ Judy Chicago

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don't even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that's wrong. ~ Judy Blume

Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention. ~ Judy Woodruff

I looked at Judy as calmly as I could. "Music and movie piracy..." I slipped into a dramatic pause as I desperately tried to come up with some idea, any idea. I scanned the room for inspiration, briefly glimpsed Randy-- I had my answer. "...are terrorism. ~ Rob Reid

I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company. ~ Mike Tyson

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again. ~ Judy Blume

was Superman. He jumped off a building - a skyscraper, no less - thinking he could fly away, and died when he found that he couldn't. I don't know if he was wearing his super suit at the time. Noel Thomas's story began with the same ending, though the means weren't so dramatic. She sat in my office, slim black purse on the floor next to her, hands folded on her lap, and calmly related that her father had killed himself. She wanted to know why. ~ Judy K. Walker

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written. ~ Judy Collins

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off. ~ Judy Woodruff

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. ~ Judy Garland

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ~ Judy Garland

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. ~ Judy Blume

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them. ~ Judy Blume

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way. ~ Judy Collins

If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true. ~ Judy Sheindlin