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

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

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.”

52. “There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.”

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates – more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts – an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.”

53. “Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates – more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts – an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.”

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we’re being gypped.”

54. “If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we’re being gypped.”

— Judith Viorst

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

55. “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

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

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

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “We each are artists of the self, creating a collage – a new and original work of art – out of scraps and fragments of identifications. The people with whom we identify are, positively or negatively, always important to us. Our feelings toward them are, in some way, always intense.”

57. “We each are artists of the self, creating a collage – a new and original work of art – out of scraps and fragments of identifications. The people with whom we identify are, positively or negatively, always important to us. Our feelings toward them are, in some way, always intense.”

— Judith Viorst

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

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

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.”

59. “For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.”

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “In fact, I would like to propose that central to understanding our lives is understanding how we deal with loss. I would like to propose in this book that the people we are and the lives that we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences.”

60. “In fact, I would like to propose that central to understanding our lives is understanding how we deal with loss. I would like to propose in this book that the people we are and the lives that we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences.”

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “There comes a time when we aren’t allowed not to know.”

61. “There comes a time when we aren’t allowed not to know.”

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “Mid-grade readers don’t have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.”

62. “Mid-grade readers don’t have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.”

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “Our father presents an optional set of rhythms and responses for us to connect to. As a second home base, he makes it safer to roam. With him as an ally – a love – it is safer, too, to show that we’re mad when we’re mad at our mother. We can hate and not be abandoned, hate and still love.”

63. “Our father presents an optional set of rhythms and responses for us to connect to. As a second home base, he makes it safer to roam. With him as an ally – a love – it is safer, too, to show that we’re mad when we’re mad at our mother. We can hate and not be abandoned, hate and still love.”

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “It doesn’t even matter if they out-and-out abhor me, Because when I am done with them, they’ll totally adore me.”

64. “It doesn’t even matter if they out-and-out abhor me, Because when I am done with them, they’ll totally adore me.”

— Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst Quote: “Why did the chicken cross the road?”

65. “Why did the chicken cross the road?”

— Judith Viorst

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