"My mom says I'm her sugarplum. My mom says I'm her lamb. My mom says I'm completely perfect Just the way I am. My mom says I'm a super-special wonderful terrific little guy. My mom just had another baby. Why?"

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Source : Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

Judith Viorst

#Mom Quotes #Baby Quotes #Sibling Quotes

“A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.”
“Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.”
“I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.”
“We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.”
“The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.”
“I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun.”
“As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing.”
“A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.”

Source : "Wickedly Savage Passions". Interview with Melissa Mia Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. February 23, 2004.

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