Top 150 Judy Blume Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “It’s not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he’s very handsome.”

— Judy Blume

52. “Cutchie-Cutchie-Coo.”

— Judy Blume

53. “I love to watch movies.”

— Judy Blume

54. “Aunt Diana shoved the baby at the Great One.”

— Judy Blume

55. “I am a big defender of ‘Harry Potter,’ and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.”

— Judy Blume

56. “Nobody ever worries about me the way they worry about Fudge. If I decided not to eat they’d probably never even notice!”

— Judy Blume

57. “She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”

— Judy Blume

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58. “The truth will make you odd.”

— Judy Blume

59. “It’s funny how you can grow away from your friends, when just a few years ago they were the most important people in your life.”

— Judy Blume

60. “My mother was my greatest fan.”

— Judy Blume

61. “As long as she loves me and I love her, what difference does religion make?”

— Judy Blume

62. “Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What’s the point of worrying in advance?”

— Judy Blume

63. “Life is a series of unlikely events, isn’t it?”

— Judy Blume

64. “I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.”

— Judy Blume

65. “To be ordinary was a fate worse than death.”

— Judy Blume

66. “I wonder what it’s like watching ladies try on underwear all day? I’d really like to get a look at that!”

— Judy Blume

67. “There are some people who just make you want to see how far you can go.”

— Judy Blume

68. “You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.”

— Judy Blume

69. “When I heard that I got so mad I kicked a closet.”

— Judy Blume

70. “Moms come up to me at book signings.”

— Judy Blume

71. “Why are we acting as if we’re angry. Are we angry?”

— Judy Blume

72. “But you have to be sure you can handle the situation before you jump into it.”

— Judy Blume

73. “And I’m Hermione from –.”

— Judy Blume

74. “But I am the greatest sister in the history of the world.”

— Judy Blume

75. “I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.”

— Judy Blume

76. “But if you aren’t any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?”

— Judy Blume

77. “I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.”

— Judy Blume

78. “Then remember what I’m telling you. Keep your feelings to yourself. Don’t ever show anyone your disappointment.”

— Judy Blume

79. “Do you think you can wait – because I don’t want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don’t want to hurt you... not ever...”

— Judy Blume

80. “How can I stop worrying when I don’t know if I’m going to turn out normal?” “I promise, you’ll turn out normal.” Are.”

— Judy Blume

81. “What I worry about most is the loss to young people. If no one speaks out for them, if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. And instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding the novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object.”

— Judy Blume

82. “What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.”

— Judy Blume

83. “Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.”

— Judy Blume

84. “We all have to make decisions. I’m not saying it’s easy. But you don’t have to collapse every time you come face-to-face with an obstacle.”

— Judy Blume

85. “When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother – and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.”

— Judy Blume

86. “Ideas seem to come from everywhere – my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.”

— Judy Blume

87. “It’s strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart – even when I’m sure I will.”

— Judy Blume

88. “On the last day of school we had a class party, with cupcakes and Island Punch. I drank eight cups of it. Island Punch is my favorite drink.”

— Judy Blume

89. “Even now she can’t decide. She thinks about flipping a coin. Heads she goes, tails she stays. But isn’t indecisiveness an early sign of mental illness?”

— Judy Blume

90. “Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What’s the point of worrying in advance?” “How do you stop yourself from worrying?” “I think of all the good things in my life.” “What about the bad things?” “There’s no room for them inside my head. Not anymore. Now I say live and let live, and I kick those other thoughts away. You can do that, too.”

— Judy Blume

91. “Sometimes she wished she were a little kid again. Everything was so simple then. Now she never knew when she was going to find out something terrible, something she didn’t want to know. Sometimes her jaw ached in the morning. She wondered if Princess Elizabeth’s jaw ever ached.”

— Judy Blume

92. “I’m really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!”

— Judy Blume

93. “In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced – writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices – all because of fear. How many have resorted to self-censorship? How many are saying to themselves, “Nope... can’t write about that. Can’t teach that book. Can’t have that book in our collection. Can’t let my student write that editorial in the school paper.”

— Judy Blume

94. “Book banning satisfied their need to feel in control of their children’s lives. Those who censored were easily frightened. They were afraid of exposing their children to ideas different from their own. Afraid to answer children’s questions or talk with them about sensitive subjects.”

— Judy Blume

95. “Some characters become your friends for life. That’s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.”

— Judy Blume

96. “Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.”

— Judy Blume

97. “Miri, sweetheart – life is hard,” Henry said, “but it’s worth the struggle.”

— Judy Blume

98. “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

99. “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

100. “You can’t deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.”

— Judy Blume