Top 120 Julie Buxbaum Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “And that’s why I finally ended it. I realized today that it’s exhausting to be a coward.”

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52. “Oh, and be careful in gym. Mr. Shackleman makes all the pretty girls run extra laps so he can look at their asses.”

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53. “I’m scared, Miney.” “All the best people are,” she says.”

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54. “I loved my mom because she read the entire Harry Potter series out loud to me, and when we were finished, she too wanted to start all over again.”

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55. “He’s more like me, I think: burdened with the realization that what goes on in his mind is somehow different from what goes on in everyone else’s. Even those closest to us.”

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56. “Exactly, You get it. I am who I am, whoever that may be now.”

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57. “I try to think of other things. David’s hand in mine. That was nice. Innocent, friendly hand-holding. I think of his tape measure. And his haircut. I think about what it might be like to kiss him. Not that I really think of him that way-like a boyfriend or even just some hookup-but still I imagine kissing him would feel good. A true thing. A real thing. I imagine he tastes like honesty.”

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58. “Theo: He’s telling everyone you’re “like a breath of fresh air.”

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59. “We don’t talk on the ride home. We don’t have to. I feel warm and giddy and like I have a secret that I want to keep all to myself. David Drucker, who is so many different people all at once: the guy who always sits alone, the guy who talked quantum physics even in my dad’s dental chair, the guy who held my hand in the snow. I kissed David Drucker, the guy I most like to talk to, and it was perfect.”

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60. “Now I don’t go anywhere except in sneakers.”

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61. “I take the long way home and circle the neighborhood. The leaves have started to fall and collect in small heaps under the carefully spaced trees. I kick the piles, enjoying the sounds my feet make as I scatter them along the sidewalk, adding a small bit of extra chaos to the city. Every once and a while, I sniff the sleeves of my sweater. I kind of like that they stink of patchouli.”

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62. “It’s just him and me, Ethan is Ethan is Ethan and Jessie is Jessie is Jessie, and his lips touch mine.”

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63. “When it is our turn to check in, the woman behind the counter smiles brightly at us despite the cruel hour. I attempt to return her enthusiasm, but my lips don’t have the energy for it. The effect is something like a snarl.”

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64. “I’ve never had someone loom so large in my brain that the rest of the stuff gets crowded out.”

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65. “I liked holding David’s hand, though. That part-the snow dampening my face, letting my tears mix without anyone seeing, his fingers snug in mine-that was nice. His hand was heavier than I would have guessed. More solid. Like he could keep me from flying away.”

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66. “Maybe home doesn have to be a place.”

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67. “Instead of trying to watch it happen differently, why don’t you try to not watch it at all?”

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68. “I want us to do a series of interviews with my grandmother and record some of her best stories and memories before they all get eaten up by her dementia. I want to literally make them into tangible things. Do you think you can help me?”

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69. “Miney says: “Mom is a closet weirdo, and dad is a closet normal, and that’s why they work.”

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70. “Her hair isn’t curly but it isn’t straight either. It hangs in repetitive alternating commas.”

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71. “There’s no way in that in less than twenty-four hours you could make out with a cool girl, find out your dad, who you thoughtwas alive all these years, is definitely, a hundred percent dead, and like this major hero, and then have your almost-first girlfriend die, who also happens to be be, like, this national icon. That would be too riduculous, even for you, Noah.” Jack.”

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72. “Maybe when parents name their children they do it from the perspective of wishful thinking. Like when you go to a restaurant and ask for a rare steak, and even though there is no universally agreed definition of the word rare, you hope you get exactly what you want.”

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73. “I liked the feeling of her hand in mine.”

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74. “Because if I’m going to spend at least seventy-five percent of my waking hours doing something, I want that something to have meaning. I am tired of wasting my time. I am starting to realize that I want my life to matter in every way that it can.”

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75. “David Drucker has a theory about my metaphorical radio waves.”

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76. “I smile, because if it’s not exactly a joke, it is sort of related to one.”

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77. “He uses proper punctuation. Capitalizes the beginning of each sentence.”

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78. “You’ve got it all wrong, man. It’s not like that,” Ethan says, puts his hands down and into his pocket. He pulls out his phone. “Just give me one second.” Ethan’s eyes are.”

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79. “I mean, I never even had to really come out to my parents. They always knew, and it was always okay. Or not even okay, better than that. Not something that had to be evaluated at all. It just was. Like having brown hair.”

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80. “Liam’s hands are curled into fists, as if he is ready to throw punches right in the middle of IHOP, which is of course a dumb place to fight. There are children here, and polyester booths, and smiley-face pancakes. Multiple kinds of syrup. Some of the drinks even come with maraschino cherries.”

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81. “Tonight, I leave the bathroom light on and double-check the lock on the front door. I rest in the middle of the bed again and make a few more snow angels. It is a fruitless exercise though, because when I am done moving my arms upward and downward, I end up in exactly the same place I started.”

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82. “Miney smiles in that way she does when she’s about to force me to do something scary. She’s like Trey that way. Always pushing me out of what she calls “my comfort zone,” which I’ll never understand. Why would you purposely make yourself uncomfortable?”

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83. “I realize this is what people call small talk. I also realize the world would be a better place without it.”

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84. “Here’s the thing about making a friend that I didn’t understand before I started talking to Kit: They grow your world. Allow for previously inconceivable possibilities.”

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85. “Parents name their child at a time when they have the absolute least amount of information they will ever have about the person they are naming. The whole practice is illogical.”

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86. “When we get off the plane, the fact that we are far from New York immediately becomes evident. Everything moves slower here; the change of pace feels something like relief. The Southern drawl has a laxative effect on Carl too, magically removing the stick from his ass.”

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87. “Email is much like an ADD diagnosis. Guaranteed extra time on the test.”

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88. “I’d love to go to Girl Dylan’s part with you,” I say, quickly accepting before Kit can rescind her invitation. If I didn’t know it was inappropriate, I’d do a little dance right here. I suddenly understand the appropriate usage of Miney’s Can I get a woot woot? because I want two of them – a woot and then another woot – whatever they may be. I’d maybe even add in some lasso arms.”

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89. “I think about what it would be like to kiss her, to touch my fingertip to her clavicle cluster, to not worry about our physical boundaries. I imagine it would be like splitting an atom, a distillation into component parts. Everything small enough to be countable. Everything as perfect and forever as pi.”

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90. “I also have a list of favorite noises. It has one item on it: Kit’s laugh.”

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91. “Something happens when you turn sixteen, I think. Your parents become less your allies, more your biggest obstacles.”

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92. “I think about Kit, who smells nice and whose nose is perfect. Not too big and not too small, just right. She’s a Goldilocks of a person.”

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93. “Team David, I think. I’m totally on Team David.”

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94. “And now that I’ve been exposed to this feeling, perfect mouth against perfect mouth, the natural order of things, I wonder why people don’t kiss all day, every day. How does anything ever get done?”

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95. “Annie: I wonder if when he talks dirty, he gets all science-y. Oooh, your matter makes my particles throb.”

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96. “Want some?” I nod, even though I don’t like to share food. Kit looks perfectly healthy, robust even, and anyhow she’d be worth getting sick for, presuming I don’t catch something that lingers, like mononucleosis.”

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97. “I convince myself that I am having fun playing big lawyer in the big city-working all hours, surrounded by a ringing phone and day-old pizza crust. That I am reveling in this life of a caricature. But that would be a lie, because the truth is that I don’t really feel much of anything at all. Just a dull ache around my edges.”

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98. “I’ve always like bleachers, things ordered vertically from high to low.”

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99. “Three things?” I ask. “I read about it in a book. Seems like a good way to get to know someone. Having to choose three things.”

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100. “You kind of have to admire her commitment,” Dri says. “Banging for feminism.”

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