Top 50 Julie Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes, you have to raze things to the ground before you can start over. Sear away the past, to pave the way for a bright future.”

— Julie Johnson

2. “I think that if two people are meant to be together, nothing can ever truly separate them. Time, distance, other people – it doesn’t matter. They’ll circle back around to each other eventually.”

— Julie Johnson

3. “Not today, Satan. I’m free tomorrow, though.”

— Julie Johnson

4. “The only time the ghosts disappear from his eyes is when he’s looking at you.”

— Julie Johnson

5. “Your hearing is just fine. It’s your listening that seems to be the problem.”

— Julie Johnson

6. “Life is one long series of punches to the gut. You either learn how to duck, or you figure out how to hit back. I’ve been hitting back so long, at this point I’ve got a mean left hook and more than my fair share of scars.”

— Julie Johnson

7. “True friends don’t judge one another. They judge other people. Together.”

— Julie Johnson

8. “Quite the opposite actually. I think having hope is one of the most important things you can do. Once you let go of it, despair takes over. Despair will kill you quicker than hope ever could. So if you’re going to hold onto something... I’m glad it’s that.”

— Julie Johnson

9. “There’s a song for every feeling, Bee. Every tear, every smile, every heartbreak and every victory. Music ignites the soul and strips us bare. It’s our very essence. Even if you have no one else to turn to and you feel all alone, remember that you can always find comfort in ballads and melodies, serenades and love songs.”

— Julie Johnson

10. “You’re much too sweet for me.” “I’m not sweet. I’m tough.” “Said the girl who doesn’t like contact sports and, last time she went to the gym, sprained her va –.”

— Julie Johnson

11. “Certain people were simply meant to cross your path – to reach into your chest and leave an irreversible handprint on your heart, on your very soul.”

— Julie Johnson

12. “No amount of soul searching would fix my past. There was no magical Band-Aid I could stick on my heart, no special glue I could use to make myself whole again. I had shattered to pieces like a fragile vase on concrete; some fragments could be roughly cobbled back together, but many of my vital parts had simply turned to dust, pulverized and scattered by the first gust of wind.”

— Julie Johnson

13. “Words are pretty, useless things – butterflies behind glass. You may feel warm and bright as you stare at their beauty but you’ll walk away empty and cold, clutching nothing but the painful realization that you never really had anything at all.”

— Julie Johnson

14. “When you walk away from your soul mate – when you take real, true love and throw it in the fire and watch as it burns down to ashes – you know you’ll never be the same again. The heart isn’t like the liver; it doesn’t regenerate, no matter how much time passes. Once it’s gone, it’s gone for good.”

— Julie Johnson

15. “Maybe you’re right, Red. Maybe I am hateful. Maybe I ruined your life. Maybe I’m the devil, and the worst thing that ever happened to you, and a million other awful things... But did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster... I might be your soulmate, anyway?”

— Julie Johnson

16. “There’s this thrill I get, when I go on an adventure. Climb a peak, explore a city, set down wheels on a dirt runway in a place I’ve never been before. I’ve spent my whole life chasing that feeling.” He pauses. “You’re the first person I’ve ever met who makes me feel that rush while I’m standing still.”

— Julie Johnson

17. “You’re right. You’re not a princess – you’re Little Red. and I’m the Big Bad Wolf.”

— Julie Johnson

18. “Change is scary. But you’re not required to be the same person you were ten years ago, ten weeks ago, ten days ago. Hell, you don’t even have to be the person you were ten minutes ago. You’re free to be whoever the hell you want.”

— Julie Johnson

19. “I want him to bury himself so deep beneath my skin he’ll never find his way out, so he knows exactly how it feels to have someone so enmeshed in your soul, it’s impossible to remove them without tearing yourself in two.”

— Julie Johnson

20. “You’re my karma, sunshine. And I’m pretty sure you were made for me.”

— Julie Johnson

21. “Chiseled everything – jaw, nose, cheekbones, forehead.”

— Julie Johnson

22. “I spent a long time trying to convince myself you were better off without me. That keeping away from you was the best way to keep you safe. But I can’t do it anymore. I won’t. See, you and I mated for life about a million years ago, little bird. Without you, there’s no music. No love. No life.”

— Julie Johnson

23. “I only cut carbs when I’m using a pizza cutter.”

— Julie Johnson

24. “I’ve had hundreds of boyfriends. So what if they’re fictional? Don’t you dare judge our love.”

— Julie Johnson

25. “I’ve always thought that relationships are kind of like stars. The majority of them burn brightly for a time and then slowly die out, leaving a luminous legacy in their wake. Their residual light shines brightly for years after their dissipation – a dazzling imprint of what once was, that lingers even in the absence of the star itself.”

— Julie Johnson

26. “Grayson Dunn is in my head. He’s under my skin. He’s invaded me like a deadly disease and hijacked my immune system until I don’t even bother fighting it anymore. I look at him, and I’m twisted into knots. Tangled into a messy spool of desire and desperation.”

— Julie Johnson

27. “He’s a sculpture. Painstakingly chiseled into perfection over the course of years, until arias could be written about his eyebrows, his cheekbones, the freaking shape of his nostrils. And me? Well, I’m probably a finger-painting. Done by a three-year-old. Without supervision.”

— Julie Johnson

28. “The wildest stallions are the most fun to break.”

— Julie Johnson

29. “When I look up at him, the gloating smile falls off my lips faster than Ned Stark’s head hit the ground – sorry, spoiler alert – because there’s a look on his face I can’t quite describe.”

— Julie Johnson

30. “Wait, you hate waffles?” He chuckles. “Is that a problem?” “Um, yes.” I make my eyes bug out. “Only Satan hates waffles.” “Maybe I’m the devil.”

— Julie Johnson

31. “The heart isn’t like the liver; it doesn’t regenerate, no matter how much time passes. Once it’s gone, it’s gone for good.”

— Julie Johnson

32. “Apparently, I missed the lesson on thinking-before-speaking in kindergarten.”

— Julie Johnson

33. “Easy as pie. Actually, come to think of it, not easy as pie. Easy as something else. Like ramen noodles. Or microwave popcorn. Because, what exactly about pie is easy?”

— Julie Johnson

34. “The way I see it, everyone’s been telling the story wrong. I mean, take Cinderella, for example. She never asked for a Prince, let alone waited around for one. Hell, all she ever wanted was a night off from work and a fancy dress to twirl in for a few hours. It’s never made sense to me that I’m supposed to sit around pining for some mythical Prince Charming to get off his ass and rescue me. If that’s the grand game plan, I could end up waiting forever.”

— Julie Johnson

35. “You hear my heartbeat?” I nod, cheek rubbing the fabric of his shirt. “It’s beating for you, little bird,” he murmurs, holding me closer. “That can be our music.” “But you can’t hear mine,” I whisper, voice cracking. He pauses. “I can hear it, Phoebe. I hear it in my soul. I set my life by its every beat.”

— Julie Johnson

36. “Take a risk on messy. Live Fearlessly. Love recklessly. Most of all, just love.”

— Julie Johnson

37. “You’ll take chances on people, and they’ll hurt you. You’ll try some things, and you’ll fail at them. And that’s okay, Bee – that’s life. You can’t stop living it because you’re scared. You can’t wait on the cliff’s edge forever, just because it’s safe.”

— Julie Johnson

38. “Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway?”

— Julie Johnson

39. “Let’s be honest: in ten years, the man-bun of the 2010s will be equivalent to the rat-tail of the 1980s.”

— Julie Johnson

40. “I pour another drink and wash the taste of dashed dreams from the back of my tongue. I feel half-dead, but my broken heart somehow still beats. What a stubborn, senseless organ, to keep going when all hope and happiness are lost.”

— Julie Johnson

41. “A boy made of stardust and selfishness; a girl filled with fire and fury at the world. We are a tangle of emotional wreckage, two broken messes thrown together, trying to navigate something we can barely comprehend.”

— Julie Johnson

42. “We stared at one another, two strangers bound eternally by a shared past of lies and broken promises.”

— Julie Johnson

43. “I’ll stay, sunshine. For you, I’ll stay.”

— Julie Johnson

44. “When you start to fall, don’t try to talk yourself out of it. The right man will be there at the bottom, to catch you.”

— Julie Johnson

45. “To those who would love me – I offer you a warning. Do no get to close. You won’t survive.”

— Julie Johnson

46. “Nate and me... we aren’t built for truces, for good times, for light jokes and giggles. We’re meant for the shadows. For the dirty, ugly, secret parts of our souls, the parts we can’t hide because we know each other too well.”

— Julie Johnson

47. “If you meet me on the street you should hurry on without a backward glance, and later when you climb into bed beside a happy girl with simple thoughts and stroke her perfect hair with fingers that are still shaky from our near-miss, you can whisper that you had a brush with death today, darling, and somehow lived.”

— Julie Johnson

48. “Of all the people in the world who could’ve won the seat next to mine at that playoff game... it was you, Gemma. You. The one person on the planet who might just understand me.”

— Julie Johnson

49. “Whatever.” I shrug. “It’s good, I guess, but if given the choice, I’d still pick, like, a Kristen Ashley book any day of the week.”

— Julie Johnson

50. “Some people brag about one night stands. Whatever. I’ve got two night stands. Either side of my bed.”

— Julie Johnson