Top 150 Judy Blume Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Live for the moment. There might be no tomorrow. And even if there is, nobody really gives a damn.”

— Judy Blume

102. “And then, from the other room, we could hear Fudge singing himself to sleep. “M-a-i-n-e spells Maine. F-u-d-g-e spells Fudgie. P-e-t-e-r spells Pee-tah. B-e-e-r spells whiskey.”

— Judy Blume

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Judy Blume

106. “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

107. “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

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

— Judy Blume

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

— Judy Blume

110. “The best books come from someplace inside. You don’t write because you want to, but because you have to.”

— Judy Blume

111. “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

112. “Everyone knew Eleanor was the smartest person in their class. So when she said sabotage the rest of them went scrambling for the Merriam-Webster dictionary.”

— Judy Blume

113. “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

114. “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

115. “That’s right! And I’m going to tell him exactly how I got these stains on my.”

— Judy Blume

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

— Judy Blume

117. “She’d learned a long time ago to look ahead, not back. What’s done is done. Make the best of it and move on.”

— Judy Blume

118. “Especially since my mother says Grandma is too much of an influence on me.”

— Judy Blume

119. “Victoria closes her eyes, breathing in the familiar scent, and for a moment it’s as if they’ve never been apart. They’re still Vixen and Cassandra, summer sisters forever. The rest is a mistake, a crazy joke.”

— Judy Blume

120. “Come on, who wouldn’t be nervous about seeing her first love? Who wouldn’t want her old boyfriend to find her attractive? If you don’t want that, you don’t go to high school reunions, you don’t go to the thirty-fifth commemoration of the worst year of your life. Besides, she’s not fifteen anymore. She’s not that girl whose heart was broken on a sunny afternoon in May. She’s a woman, married.”

— Judy Blume

121. “So many adults are exhausting themselves worrying about other people corrupting their children with books, they’re turning kids off to reading instead of turning them on.”

— Judy Blume

122. “Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to.”

— Judy Blume

123. “How many times had Rusty reminded Miri, You’re my only child. You’re my life. So when it comes to doing stupid things, don’t. Because I couldn’t stand it if I lost you. Do you understand? Now Miri thought she understood. There was a burden to being the only child.”

— Judy Blume

124. “What’s next on your reading list? Discover.”

— Judy Blume

125. “There’s a lot of stuff you know and you don’t even know how you know it!”

— Judy Blume

126. “Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.”

— Judy Blume

127. “When I started to write, it was the ’70s, and throughout that decade, we didn’t have any problems with book challenges or censorship.”

— Judy Blume

128. “The next day, when I got up, Fudge’s bed was empty. He doesn’t know you’re supposed to sleep late when.”

— Judy Blume

129. “After drinking eight cups in a row, then walking home from school, then waiting for the elevator, then digging out my key and unlocking the door to our apartment, then dashing down the hall to the bathroom, I really had to pee. I mean, really. But Fudge was already in there, sitting on the toilet, turning the pages of Arthur the Anteater.”

— Judy Blume

130. “It’s not God’s job to decide what happens,” she’d said. “It’s his job to help you get.”

— Judy Blume

131. “Trouble in our family is spelled with a capital C and has been as long as I can remember. The C stands for Charles. He’s my older brother, two years and four months older to be exact. Ever since the phone call about him last night, I’ve felt incredibly tense. And now, at this very minute, my parents are driving up to Vermont, to Charles’s boarding school, to find out if he’s actually been kicked out or if he’s just been suspended again. I.”

— Judy Blume

132. “Eleanor Gordon was the most sophisticated in their crowd. She read The New Yorker.”

— Judy Blume

133. “Before the end of the week, Fudge asked the big question. “How did the baby get inside you, Mommy?” So.”

— Judy Blume

134. “I didn’t know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.”

— Judy Blume

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135. “I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we’re connected. It’s great.”

— Judy Blume

136. “Understand that you’re sensitive.” Miri was proud for coming up with such a good word. “Is that like saying I’m dramatic, or crazy?” Miri was careful now. “Sensitive is better than dramatic, and it’s definitely not as bad as crazy.”

— Judy Blume

137. “Help the Retarded. Two.”

— Judy Blume

138. “Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Her twenty-seven books have won many awards, including the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Judy lives in Key West and New.”

— Judy Blume

139. “The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I’m writing.”

— Judy Blume

140. “You can fill a lifetime with if only’s or you can get on with it.”

— Judy Blume

141. “She said, “I must – I must – I must increase my bust.” She said it over and over. We copied her movements and chanted with her. “We must – we must – we must increase our bust!”

— Judy Blume

142. “I was about to drop a light one on his forehead when he reached up, grabbed me around the neck and pulled me down. Then he planted a big, wet smackeroo right in the middle of my face. “Sweet dreams, Pete!”

— Judy Blume

143. “But I have discovered that if you love someone the way I love Mew, you learn to overlook the disgusting things.”

— Judy Blume

144. “For the rest of her life, every lovers’ quarrel would remind Vix of this night, this night when anger crackled in the air. She vowed then and there no guy would ever make her feel that bad.”

— Judy Blume

145. “We watched as the last.”

— Judy Blume

146. “Besides, if they were going to be killed it would be better to be killed together, otherwise she’d have to explain to Lamb why Caitlin was murdered and she wasn’t.”

— Judy Blume

147. “It’s funny how when you try to help somebody else feel better you wind up feeling better yourself.”

— Judy Blume

148. “Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. My father’s had an awful accident. Please help him God. He’s really very kind and nice. Even though he doesn’t know you the way I do, he’s a good father. And he needs his hand God. So please, please let him be all right. I’ll do anything you say if you help him. Thank you God.”

— Judy Blume

149. “Well, that’s a first-year teacher for you! Didn’t he know that was a bad idea?”

— Judy Blume

150. “And it sparkled!”

— Judy Blume