Judith Guest

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

— Judith Guest

#find #hard #keep #lips #people

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

— Judith Guest

#life

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. ↗

— Judith Guest

#judith-guest #life #meaningless #meaninglessness #ordinary-people

And what about tomorrow then? And all the tomorrows to come? Why can't we talk about it? Why can't we ever talk about it? ↗

— Judith Guest

#family

...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together... ↗

— Judith Guest

#grief #hope #inspirational #life #love

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it. ↗

— Judith Guest

#back #day #days #every #every day

My success is not who I am. ↗

— Judith Guest

#i #i am #success #success is #who

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up. ↗

— Judith Guest

#growing up #household #i #ours #political

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

— Judith Guest

#i #i can #long #long time #novel

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me. ↗

— Judith Guest

#because #cards #courageous #deal #handed