Judith Viorst

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."

"When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead."

"We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong."

"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again."