Top 40 Julia Heaberlin Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Life is never yours. You are just renting it out while the landlord in the sky ups the price until you can’t pay anymore.”

— Julia Heaberlin

2. “He believed that a person’s most profound flaws or virtues emerge in great crisis, or they remain buried forever.”

— Julia Heaberlin

3. “Loving dark men is a seesaw. They never tell you everything. You always wonder if the tiny red spot on a shirt is really from a spaghetti dinner like they claim. But then they put a bird back in a nest. They pull a drowning kid out of the water. And that’s all it takes. The spaghetti is not blood.”

— Julia Heaberlin

4. “My grandfather told me that God puts pieces in the wrong places to keep us busy solving puzzles, and in the perfect places so that we never forget there is a God.”

— Julia Heaberlin

5. “There’s a reason you feel the need to blame yourself,” he continues, “from all accounts you’re a very careful girl. If you accept the blame, decide you took a rare misstep, you can reassure yourself this was not a random event. If you blame yourself you can believe you’re still in control of your universe. You’re not, you never will be.”

— Julia Heaberlin

6. “It is a cancerous myth, that children are resilient.”

— Julia Heaberlin

7. “This is something I love about native southerners – a hello includes more personal information than a Yankee would parse out in an hour. Actually, the hello often doesn’t include the word hello.”

— Julia Heaberlin

8. “The kind of desktop where passion is screwing organization and nobody’s making the bed.”

— Julia Heaberlin

9. “I thought there would be more people. Where are all the people who scream on Facebook?” “On the couch. Screaming.”

— Julia Heaberlin

10. “I am sane, and I am not, and I don’t want anyone to know.”

— Julia Heaberlin

11. “That was my grandfather’s one survival tip if I ever found myself trapped in a fairy tale. Keep your promises. Bad things happen if you don’t.”

— Julia Heaberlin

12. “It would be very hard to live in Lydia’s head. I imagined it blindingly bright and chaotic, like an exploding star. Both sides of her brain constantly at war.”

— Julia Heaberlin

13. “Money is everything. It is life. It is happiness. It is the kind of blind I want to be.”

— Julia Heaberlin

14. “Children often play the day of the funeral as if it’s any other day. It’s deceptive. They grieve far longer and more deeply than adults.”

— Julia Heaberlin

15. “It’s the kind of storm that Yankees make fun of on Facebook with a picture of a spilled cup of ice on the sidewalk that shuts down schools or a cartoon that depicts massive car pileups with one culprit snowflake. It would be funny, if a tenth of an inch of ice in Texas wasn’t deadly.”

— Julia Heaberlin

16. “Moral high ground is a pleasant place to perch, even if the view turns about to be rather limited, in scope.”

— Julia Heaberlin

17. “February in Texas is a cold, bitter lady. March is when she loses her virginity.”

— Julia Heaberlin

18. “There’s a knife in every kitchen drawer, pillows on every bed, anti-freeze in every garage. Weapons everywhere, people, and we’re ready to blow.”

— Julia Heaberlin

19. “We are all the same in the dark. My mother said that to me when she kissed me good night. She meant that in the dark, all that’s left is our souls.”

— Julia Heaberlin

20. “I want to drop backward, fall forever, and land on a place soft and endlessly deep.”

— Julia Heaberlin

21. “The truth is, I’m not brave. I’m not even that willing. I’m just more afraid of one thing happening than the other.”

— Julia Heaberlin

22. “What’s coming is always unimaginable, and by that, I mean just that. It cannot be imagined. What’s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.”

— Julia Heaberlin

23. “The wasps that live inside my chest build paper nests.”

— Julia Heaberlin

24. “I had plenty of hours to memorize every stroke of this da Vinci, down to the salt Judas knocked over, making it forever bad luck to spill salt. One of my uncle’s most effective sermons was called “Devil and Salt.” He preached that when you spill salt, the noise wakes the devil, who sleeps on your left shoulder. But if you throw a little extra salt over your shoulder, the devil is blinded.”

— Julia Heaberlin

25. “Tall arched Windows filtered in light from all sides, while creepy winged gargoyles leared from the top, waiting for someone with a wand to bring them to life. Inside, thousands of visitors a day chose from among six million books, for their proof that books would survive catastrophic events alongside the roaches.”

— Julia Heaberlin

26. “Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable alignment for the enterprise. – Donald Regan, in his memoir, For the Record.”

— Julia Heaberlin

27. “A hug or any form of sympathetic body contact is the worst thing you can offer a Southern woman in tears if you’re looking for her to stop.”

— Julia Heaberlin

28. “Natives often return, especially the ones who swear they never will.”

— Julia Heaberlin

29. “Houston stretches out before us, a modern goddess, bruised by not defeated.”

— Julia Heaberlin

30. “When it came to Lydia, boys just wanted a cheap thrill: to meet a beautiful, crazy girl in the dark and hope she didn’t bring an axe.”

— Julia Heaberlin

31. “It is a profound thing, to know a boy his whole life.”

— Julia Heaberlin

32. “That said, this stretch of Texas road is all blue sky and endless pancake. I just listened to a couple of truckers at a diner down the road concur that this piece of Texas countertop proved the earth was flat, and that Donald Trump’s wall was thought up secretly to protect us from falling off.”

— Julia Heaberlin

33. “At the time, Trumanell’s father, Frank Branson, also missing, was suspect No. 1. His son, Wyatt, was No. 2. It had been twenty days. The local cops, far outnumbered, had the choice of pulling out guns and laying waste to the people they sat next to at church or standing back and watching their crime scene get destroyed.”

— Julia Heaberlin

34. “He believed that a person’s most profound flaws or virtues emerge in great crisis, or they remain buried forever. I remember leaving his office that day thinking it was sad that ordinary, dull people die all the time without ever knowing they are heroes. All because a girl didn’t go under in the lake right in front of them, or a neighbor’s house didn’t catch fire.”

— Julia Heaberlin

35. “The river that ran by my Oklahoma trailer park was filthy with washed-off sins.”

— Julia Heaberlin

36. “Why do men have to kill beautiful things?”

— Julia Heaberlin

37. “Ambient awareness. That’s what social scientists say we create when we relate the most insignificant details of our lives to 796 people.”

— Julia Heaberlin

38. “The avengers outside are the worst kind, the ones in silver cross necklaces, baseball caps, and Life is Good T-shirts. The ones who stay up until midnight to build their first-graders’ Alamo projects out of sugar cubes, cancel a Thanksgiving cruise to bring Grandma some turkey in the hospital, spend a full paycheck on ACL surgery for the family dog. Their love for God and family is just as manic as their hate.”

— Julia Heaberlin

39. “Wouldn’t you be happier if the thing that defined you to the world was not what you were missing?”

— Julia Heaberlin

40. “A granola friend, born somewhere north, once asked in disgust, “Why would any sane person want a greasy breaded crust around a slab of red meat?” If you had to ask, I told her, you’d never know.”

— Julia Heaberlin

41. “The more I live, the more I binge Netflix and read overhyped novels, the more I think that knowing the ending is overrated, that the beginning and middle are enough. Answers aren’t going to change anything.”

— Julia Heaberlin

42. “In the dark, all that’s left is our souls.”

— Julia Heaberlin