Judith Viorst - Love Quotes

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One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.

Judith Viorst
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

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Many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

Judith Viorst
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying, 'I love you.'

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Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

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It's true love because
If he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them and the next morning I couldn't get out of bed,
He wouldn't tell me he told me.

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Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love—and its partner, hate. Our father—our second other —elaborates on them.

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We love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

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We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

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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.

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Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.

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

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