41 Quotes by Judy Blundell

I understood the word ‘swoon’. It felt that way, like ‘sweep’ and ‘moon’ and ‘woo’, all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.

Don’t just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with secrets. This tight, terrific tale had me turning pages all night long.

What did I owe you, Peter? Truth and justice? If judges would judge, if lawyers wouldn’t trick, if reporters would tell what really happened instead of what sold papers. Fat.

We get our dreams told to us. Girls. Every day.

Darling, I have a tip,” Arlene said. “Never, ever wait for a man.

Just one dance. Just one. That’s all I wanted. I know now how you can take one step and you can’t stop yourself from taking another. I know now what it means to want. I know it can get you to a place where there’s no way out. I know now that there’s no such thing as just one. But I didn’t know it then.

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

The world is full of places I haven’t been.

You’re a watcher, aren’t you?” Peter said. “I can tell. You watch and listen. But you know what I’m betting. The thing you can’t see so clear is yourself.” I was startled. Here I was, trying to come up with something to say about the weather, and he said something real. “What do you mean?” I asked. “You don’t walk like a girl who knows how pretty she is, for one thing. That’s a crying shame.