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Top 25 Julie Buntin Quotes (2025 Update)

Julie Buntin Quote: “That’s why I think she couldn’t tell me. She didn’t want me to think less of her, and somewhere along the way, one of the things I screwed up the most, was giving her the impression that if I knew, I would.”

1. “That’s why I think she couldn’t tell me. She didn’t want me to think less of her, and somewhere along the way, one of the things I screwed up the most, was giving her the impression that if I knew, I would.”

— Julie Buntin

Julie Buntin Quote: “Why do they say ghosts are cold? Mine are warm, a breath dampening your cheek, a voice when you thought you were alone.”

2. “Why do they say ghosts are cold? Mine are warm, a breath dampening your cheek, a voice when you thought you were alone.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “It took her years to come around, to see what I saw- that Liam was a man who would only leave if your forced his hand.”

3. “It took her years to come around, to see what I saw- that Liam was a man who would only leave if your forced his hand.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “I want to go home, I want to go home, but what I mean, what I’m grasping for, is not a place, it’s a feeling.”

4. “I want to go home, I want to go home, but what I mean, what I’m grasping for, is not a place, it’s a feeling.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “For a teenage girl, a beautiful mother is a uniquely painful curse.”

5. “For a teenage girl, a beautiful mother is a uniquely painful curse.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “Whenever I hear the word danger, I see Marlena and me staring into the mouth of that U-Haul in the winter hour between twilight and dark. Two girls full of plans, fifteen and seventeen years old in the middle of nowhere. Stop, I want to tell us. Stay right where you are, together. Don’t move. But we will. We always do. The clock’s already running.”

6. “Whenever I hear the word danger, I see Marlena and me staring into the mouth of that U-Haul in the winter hour between twilight and dark. Two girls full of plans, fifteen and seventeen years old in the middle of nowhere. Stop, I want to tell us. Stay right where you are, together. Don’t move. But we will. We always do. The clock’s already running.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “Tell me what you can’t forget, and I’ll tell you who you are. I switch off my apartment light and she comes with the dark.”

7. “Tell me what you can’t forget, and I’ll tell you who you are. I switch off my apartment light and she comes with the dark.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “I’ve never believed in the idea of an innocent bystander. The act of watching changes what happens. Just because you don’t touch anything doesn’t mean you are exempt.”

8. “I’ve never believed in the idea of an innocent bystander. The act of watching changes what happens. Just because you don’t touch anything doesn’t mean you are exempt.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “Michigan was all lake and sky and stars, and I though back to Marlena asking me that question about dying and still agreed with the answer I’d given. There would be beauty to drowning here, to living your whole life in this place, to never knowing the uglier world outside.”

9. “Michigan was all lake and sky and stars, and I though back to Marlena asking me that question about dying and still agreed with the answer I’d given. There would be beauty to drowning here, to living your whole life in this place, to never knowing the uglier world outside.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “He did that a lot, ignored even direct questions, and it got so she felt like she was crazy, like maybe she was opening her mouth to speak and nothing was coming out.”

10. “He did that a lot, ignored even direct questions, and it got so she felt like she was crazy, like maybe she was opening her mouth to speak and nothing was coming out.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “Raise your glass. Drink to trying, like this, to bring her back.”

11. “Raise your glass. Drink to trying, like this, to bring her back.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “Who can recognize the ending as it’s happening? What we live, it seems to me, is pretty much always a surprise.”

12. “Who can recognize the ending as it’s happening? What we live, it seems to me, is pretty much always a surprise.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “Above us, the sky, a shattered mirror of the lake, and of course, the stars – as distant and unknowable as every single person I’d ever met, even myself.”

13. “Above us, the sky, a shattered mirror of the lake, and of course, the stars – as distant and unknowable as every single person I’d ever met, even myself.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “Great loneliness, profound isolation, a cataclysmic, overpowering sense of being misunderstood. When does that kind of deep feeling just stop? Where does it go? At fifteen, the world ended over and over and over again. To be so young is kind of a self-violence. No foresight, an inflated sense of wisdom, and yet you’re still responsible for your mistakes. It’s a little frightening to remember just how much, and how precisely, I felt. Now, if the world really did end, I think I’d just feel numb.”

14. “Great loneliness, profound isolation, a cataclysmic, overpowering sense of being misunderstood. When does that kind of deep feeling just stop? Where does it go? At fifteen, the world ended over and over and over again. To be so young is kind of a self-violence. No foresight, an inflated sense of wisdom, and yet you’re still responsible for your mistakes. It’s a little frightening to remember just how much, and how precisely, I felt. Now, if the world really did end, I think I’d just feel numb.”

— Julie Buntin

Julie Buntin Quote: “Tell what you can’t forget, and I’ll tell you who you are.”

15. “Tell what you can’t forget, and I’ll tell you who you are.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “With Mom’s story, my perception of my parents underwent a series of rapid changes, the way letters on an eye exam do when the doctor flips the lenses – clear, then blurred, sharp, then back to incomprehensible fuzz.”

16. “With Mom’s story, my perception of my parents underwent a series of rapid changes, the way letters on an eye exam do when the doctor flips the lenses – clear, then blurred, sharp, then back to incomprehensible fuzz.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “Sometimes I wonder how I’d tell this if I didn’t have so many books rattling around inside me. The truth is both a vast wilderness and the tiniest space you can imagine.”

17. “Sometimes I wonder how I’d tell this if I didn’t have so many books rattling around inside me. The truth is both a vast wilderness and the tiniest space you can imagine.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “Mostly reading – that’s how I muddled through time, the last page of one book opening onto the first page of the next, so that I lived in a kind of amended super-book, alongside Anne Shirley and Hermione and Bunny and Heathcliff.”

18. “Mostly reading – that’s how I muddled through time, the last page of one book opening onto the first page of the next, so that I lived in a kind of amended super-book, alongside Anne Shirley and Hermione and Bunny and Heathcliff.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “I was terrified. No matter how far I fell, something pulled me back to safety – school and its occasional fascinating gift, dopey, well-meaning men, and books, books, that’s where I found her most often, in the intimacies of characters, Ruth and Sylvie in a towboat, Esperanza on Mango Street, Anna K., of course, right before she jumps.”

19. “I was terrified. No matter how far I fell, something pulled me back to safety – school and its occasional fascinating gift, dopey, well-meaning men, and books, books, that’s where I found her most often, in the intimacies of characters, Ruth and Sylvie in a towboat, Esperanza on Mango Street, Anna K., of course, right before she jumps.”

— Julie Buntin

Julie Buntin Quote: “Privilege is something to be aware of, to fight to see beyond, but ultimately to be grateful for. It’s like a bulletproof vest; it makes you harder to kill.”

20. “Privilege is something to be aware of, to fight to see beyond, but ultimately to be grateful for. It’s like a bulletproof vest; it makes you harder to kill.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “I noticed, and begin to see the outline of the best friend, the girl she shaped herself around, according to. For so many women, the process of becoming requires two. It’s not hard to make out the marks the other one left.”

21. “I noticed, and begin to see the outline of the best friend, the girl she shaped herself around, according to. For so many women, the process of becoming requires two. It’s not hard to make out the marks the other one left.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “But having lied and stolen, doesn’t mean you’re a liar and a thief,...”

22. “But having lied and stolen, doesn’t mean you’re a liar and a thief,...”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “You can’t steal a whole new life.”

23. “You can’t steal a whole new life.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “I didn’t forget. I wrote it down.”

24. “I didn’t forget. I wrote it down.”

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Julie Buntin Quote: “And we went in. One of us turned first, one of us was already gone. Into our empty houses, two girls at the need of the world, separated by dim rooms just a few dozen feet apart. One of us fell easily asleep, a million days left except that particular one, forever almost over, an ending that happens again and again no matter how much I don’t want it to. Maybe that’s all loss is. What happens, whether you like it or not. What won’t let you go.”

25. “And we went in. One of us turned first, one of us was already gone. Into our empty houses, two girls at the need of the world, separated by dim rooms just a few dozen feet apart. One of us fell easily asleep, a million days left except that particular one, forever almost over, an ending that happens again and again no matter how much I don’t want it to. Maybe that’s all loss is. What happens, whether you like it or not. What won’t let you go.”

— Julie Buntin

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