Top 100 Julie Anne Peters Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Sometimes I’d catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn’t be me, just some nebulous shadow person.”

— Julie Anne Peters

52. “I don’t have alot of people to talk to. Not alot of people are worth my time.”

— Julie Anne Peters

53. “Tus fracasos y tus culpas. Se quedan contigo. Se aglomeran y afean, crecen cancerosos dentro de ti y te dan ganas de morir.”

— Julie Anne Peters

54. “But you’d sell your soul for it, wouldn’t you? For one day of feeling beautiful.”

— Julie Anne Peters

55. “You will break God’s heart if you throw His gift away.” God has a heart? That’s news to me.”

— Julie Anne Peters

56. “Everything seems to be working.” Except me. I’m broken.”

— Julie Anne Peters

57. “I’d decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can’t deal with you.”

— Julie Anne Peters

58. “I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn’t matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.”

— Julie Anne Peters

59. “I don’t know why I can’t let the insults go, but I can’t. I’m the product of every hurt that’s ever been laid on me.”

— Julie Anne Peters

60. “I won’t be alive so I won’t care who finds me.”

— Julie Anne Peters

61. “She’s still doing it, pushing me into situations I can’t handle, making me cope. She knows I can’t cope.”

— Julie Anne Peters

62. “I hope they remember the good stuff, when I was a baby, a toddler, when they still had hopes and dreams for their little girl, their miracle child. In truth they were good to me. They were only doing what they knew how to do; what they thought was best.”

— Julie Anne Peters

63. “Yeah, I loved her. I couldn’t help it. She was my brother.”

— Julie Anne Peters

64. “My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what’s left. Nothing. There is no more Daelyn Rice. As I was. As I am. Or will become. I’m a blank slate.”

— Julie Anne Peters

65. “I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, “Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?” I let them steal my dignity.”

— Julie Anne Peters

66. “His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I’m transported across the universe to a world I’ve never been.”

— Julie Anne Peters

67. “Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look.”

— Julie Anne Peters

68. “Most of all I’m mad at Swanee for dying and taking from me the most precious thing I ever owned. I didn’t own her, but she was mine. Mine, Liana. Do you hear me?”

— Julie Anne Peters

69. “That’s why they call it a dream, Tone. Because it’ll never be a reality.”

— Julie Anne Peters

70. “He makes me feel all jiggly inside. STOP FEELING. Stop caring.”

— Julie Anne Peters

71. “But its not funny. Not to people who’ve been told they’re losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.”

— Julie Anne Peters

72. “I don’t have to answer. Until you know the question.”

— Julie Anne Peters

73. “When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see is a starving, stunted bird who never grew wings and lost all reason sing.”

— Julie Anne Peters

74. “That’s love? To let someone beat you and be hateful to you? These people are all so... Weak. Powerless to change their lives. I know the feeling. All you can do is take it. No one understands how it beats you down.”

— Julie Anne Peters

75. “It was all about hate. There should be laws. We’re there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?”

— Julie Anne Peters

76. “At times like this, I’m thankful I don’t feel love.”

— Julie Anne Peters

77. “She responds by kissing me harder and longer and deeper. She loves me too. She’s just afraid.”

— Julie Anne Peters

78. “I suppose I’ll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but considerate of others. I always gave up my place in line. I loaned out pencils and paper, or let people take them from me. I never reported a sexual assault.”

— Julie Anne Peters

79. “What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”

— Julie Anne Peters

80. “The stone bench is gray. The grass is gray. My life is dirty gray.”

— Julie Anne Peters

81. “She smiled. “You did. And my gaydar never lies. Although later, I thought you might be bi.” No, I wasn’t bi. I was sure of that now. The depth of desire – it was unbelievable. That, and the certainty of this being right. Being me.”

— Julie Anne Peters

82. “This is my fault. Mine. Making her think I’d be here for her.”

— Julie Anne Peters

83. “I knew if I gave into it, I’d have to surrender myself completely. I’d lose all control. Everything I knew, everything I was, the walls I’d built up to protect myself all these years would come crashing down. I might get lost in the rubble. Yet, she made me feel alive in a way I’d only ever imagined I could feel. Bells, whistles, music.”

— Julie Anne Peters

84. “They didn’t guarantee you’d come out a whole person.”

— Julie Anne Peters

85. “If we’d found each other, though, the tormented, the weak and powerless, we couldn’t bound together. What made me weak was the sense that I was alone. But maybe I wasn’t alone. All the people on Through-the-Light, where were they? Living in dark space, the gray place. If we could’ve found each other sooner, would it have changed the outcome?”

— Julie Anne Peters

86. “Oh sure. Because we always talk about deep down stuff.”

— Julie Anne Peters

87. “You would never understand, Kim. You think I’m normal; you wish I was.”

— Julie Anne Peters

88. “I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.”

— Julie Anne Peters

89. “His invitation lingers. So does my question. Why me? I don’t know the answer. When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see is a starving, stunted bird who never grew wings and lost all reason to sing.”

— Julie Anne Peters

90. “Flush me down the toilet. Human waste.”

— Julie Anne Peters

91. “She was in me, in my blood, invading every cell in my body. She was the one I wanted. She was the one I saw, felt, desired. This was wrong. He was wrong. It was all so wrong.”

— Julie Anne Peters

92. “She’ll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them.”

— Julie Anne Peters

93. “But she never just accepted me for the way I was.”

— Julie Anne Peters

94. “When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.”

— Julie Anne Peters

95. “Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.”

— Julie Anne Peters

96. “I had to fight so hard not to cry.”

— Julie Anne Peters

97. “Do what, Kim? Lead a normal life? Too late. Way too late.”

— Julie Anne Peters

98. “Like anyone cared where I was, or who I was.”

— Julie Anne Peters

99. “What did she see in me? What does she see that I don’t?”

— Julie Anne Peters

100. “Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”

— Julie Anne Peters