Judy Blundell

“The world is full of places I haven't been.”

— Judy Blundell

I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished…

— Judy Blundell

When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.

— Judy Blundell

“May I" was a way of life for a girl like me.”

— Judy Blundell

“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…

— Judy Blundell

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

— Judy Blundell

“Are you running away?" "No, not today.”

— Judy Blundell

Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with…

— Judy Blundell

“It had never occurred to me that I could do something without permission. 'May I' was a way of life for a…

— Judy Blundell

I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy.…

— Judy Blundell

“Could it really happen like this?" he asked. "That a girl like you can make me feel..." "Make you feel what?" "Make…

— Judy Blundell

“I took off one of the high-heeled sandals, the white sandals my mother prized, and threw it into the pool. That's when…

— Judy Blundell

“On every shopping trip, there is one indulgence.”

— Judy Blundell

“He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person.”

— Judy Blundell

I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one…

— Judy Blundell

“Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a…

— Judy Blundell

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

— Judy Blundell

I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.

— Judy Blundell

“Maybe paradise is overrated.”

— Judy Blundell

“That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean.”

— Judy Blundell

“I breathed in and out, perfume and smoke, perfume and smoke, and we lay like that for a long time, until I…

— Judy Blundell

“But I do know," he continued, "how to salvage an evening for a girl in a party dress." He stood up, bowed.…

— Judy Blundell

Truth, justice...I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie. But you could make apple pie from Ritz…

— Judy Blundell

“I assume you're a refugee from the dance inside." "I escaped the enemy, captain," I said. I could see the side of…

— Judy Blundell

If the body is pampered, the mind is free to concentrate.

— Judy Blundell