“You can’t deny they ever happened. You can’t deny you ever loved them—love them still—even if loving them causes you pain.”
More from Judy Blume
“That’s not a bad word. ‘Hate’ and ‘war’ are bad words. ‘Fuck’ isn’t.”
“It’s not so much that I like him as a person, God, but as a boy he’s very handsome.”
“I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still…”
“‘Forever?’ he asked. ‘Forever,’ I said.”