Top 150 Judy Blume Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.”

— Judy Blume

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

— Judy Blume

55. “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

56. “It’s not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he’s very handsome.”

— Judy Blume

57. “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

58. “I can’t let safety and security become the focus of my life.”

— Judy Blume

59. “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

60. “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

61. “Cutchie-Cutchie-Coo.”

— Judy Blume

62. “When you’re without problems,” Clare said, “you’re dead.”

— Judy Blume

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

— Judy Blume

64. “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

65. “I love to watch movies.”

— Judy Blume

66. “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

67. “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

68. “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

69. “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

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

— Judy Blume

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

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

— Judy Blume

76. “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

77. “The truth will make you odd.”

— Judy Blume

78. “My mother was my greatest fan.”

— Judy Blume

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

— Judy Blume

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

— Judy Blume

81. “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

82. “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

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

— Judy Blume

84. “I love to watch to him while he sleeps. Besides everything else he is really my best friend now. It’s a different kind of friendship... It makes me wish I could share every day with him.”

— Judy Blume

85. “Live for the moment. There might be no tomorrow. And even if there is, nobody really gives a damn.”

— Judy Blume

86. “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

87. “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.”

— Judy Blume

88. “Now that’s my point about my mother. I mean, if she understands so much about me then why couldn’t she understand that I had to wear loafers without socks?”

— Judy Blume

89. “Not that memories were enough – they didn’t keep you warm on a cold winter’s night. They couldn’t hold you when you were frightened or sad. But they were better than nothing.”

— Judy Blume

90. “And now she was going. She was going to walk up the steps leading to the silver bird that would gobble her up, holding her in its belly until it reached its faraway destination, where it would spit her out. In one piece, she hoped.”

— Judy Blume

91. “No place has delicatessen like New York.”

— Judy Blume

92. “And even more, I’m going to see to it that he’s happy!”

— Judy Blume

93. “The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.”

— Judy Blume

94. “I made promises to you that I’m not sure I can keep.”

— Judy Blume

95. “One night my father came home from the office all excited. He told us Mr. and Mrs. Yarby were coming to New York. He’s the president of the Juicy-O company. He.”

— Judy Blume

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

— Judy Blume

97. “I lived in New York for eleven and a half years and I don’t think anybody ever asked me about my religion. I never even thought about it. Now, all of a sudden, it was the big thing in my life.”

— Judy Blume

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

— Judy Blume

99. “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

100. “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