Quotes from Judith Guest

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

My success is not who I am.

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

It's all right, Con, to feel anxious. Allow yourself a couple of bad days, now and then, will you?

First. I give a damn. About everything you do

He closes his eyes. A jungle in there, inside his head. He opens them quickly.

He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the familiar arrow of pain. Only there is none. An oddly pleasant swell of memory, a wave of warmth flooding over him, sliding back, slowly. It is a first

Happy!" She looks at him. "Oh, Ward! You give us all the definition, will you? But first you'd better check on those kids. Every day, to make sure they're good and safe, that

Fine. We can make it a combination Christmas and birthday present. You decide. I'll leave it up to you". If it were up to him, he would give him everything: sun and moon, eternal happiness, serene and uncomplicated.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either.

crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.