Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?”

— Julie Murphy

2. “I will survive, because I have survived.”

— Julie Murphy

3. “Sometimes we have to break the rules to get what we want. But now I think it’s time we change them.”

— Julie Murphy

4. “The difference between winning and losing is all in the details’, she said.”

— Julie Murphy

5. “I didn’t want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.”

— Julie Murphy

6. “My magic truth-the thing that has changed everything for me-is this: the body I have shouldn’t change how deserving I am of my dreams. I stopped obsessing over my body being too round or too wise or too lumpy. Because I’m not too much of anything. I am just enough. Even when I don’t feel like I am.”

— Julie Murphy

7. “I’m fat. I’m happy. I’m insecure. I’m bold.”

— Julie Murphy

8. “I am a total badass. A fat badass.”

— Julie Murphy

9. “I’ll never figure out how it is that some people can work so hard and get paid so little, while so many people who are paid the most hardly work at all.”

— Julie Murphy

10. “Perfection is nothing more than a phantom shadow we’re all chasing.”

— Julie Murphy

11. “There’s something about swimsuits that make you think you’ve got to earn the right to wear them. And that’s wrong. Really, the criteria is simple. Do you have a body? Put a swimsuit on it.”

— Julie Murphy

12. “I think maybe it’s the things we don’t want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear.”

— Julie Murphy

13. “Love is in the details” -Millie.”

— Julie Murphy

14. “I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.”

— Julie Murphy

15. “Love doesn’t disappear when you give it away, and new love doesn’t make old love any less legitimate.”

— Julie Murphy

16. “I guess sometimes the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections, because some days the damn dress just won’t zip.”

— Julie Murphy

17. “As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.”

— Julie Murphy

18. “I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn’t know how to deal with what came after the feeling.”

— Julie Murphy

19. “Life isn’t written in the stars. Fate is ours to pen. I choose guys. I choose girls. I choose people. But most of all: I choose.”

— Julie Murphy

20. “Find the things you love and do them every day, even if it means failing. That’s all there is to it.”

— Julie Murphy

21. “Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That’s what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.”

— Julie Murphy

22. “I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.”

— Julie Murphy

23. “Does love still exist if you can’t say it? If you can’t admit it?”

— Julie Murphy

24. “The fat kids, the skinny kids, the tall ones, the short ones, and everybody in between: I am so thankful that not a single one of us is the exact same. What a boring world that would be.”

— Julie Murphy

25. “There’s nothing good about losing someone. But maybe Lucy wasn’t supposed to be your compass forever. Maybe she was there for you just long enough so you could learn how to be your own compass and find your own way. The universe is a strange thing.”

— Julie Murphy

26. “All my favorite things start as bad ideas.”

— Julie Murphy

27. “Spiders don’t chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey’s insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!”

— Julie Murphy

28. “I don’t get why we call it a crush when it feels more like a curse.”

— Julie Murphy

29. “Every time I blink, all I can see are my flaws. My body in a fun-house mirror. Hips too wide. Thighs too big. And a head too small for the rest of me.”

— Julie Murphy

30. “The word fat makes people uncomfortable. But when you see me, the first thing you notice is my body. And my body is fat. It’s like how I notice some girls have big boobs or shiny hair or knobby knees. Those things are okay to say. But the word fat, the one that best describes me, makes lips frown and cheeks lose their color. But that’s me. I’m fat. It’s not a cuss word. It’s not an insult. At least it’s not when I say it. So I always figure why not get it out of the way?”

— Julie Murphy

31. “I’ve been real lost without her. Like, she was this compass I didn’t even know I had.”

— Julie Murphy

32. “Girls don’t have to be nice,” she says simply. “But they should stick together... The wider world wants you to think other women are drama... or catty. But that’s just because when we work together, we’re unstoppable... One day you’ll wake up to find that there’s a woman, or maybe a few, who have outlasted every changing season of your life.”

— Julie Murphy

33. “I don’t like to think of my hips as a nuisance, but more of an asset. I mean, if this were, like, 1642, my wide birthing hips would be worth many cows or something.”

— Julie Murphy

34. “Just ’cause something’s easy doesn’t make it right.”

— Julie Murphy

35. “I don’t exactly get to be moody or snappy when I don’t feel like putting on a happy face, because when most people meet me, I’m already starting out with a deficit. Fat girls don’t get that luxury.”

— Julie Murphy

36. “But the good news is that since this is the worst day ever, tomorrow can only be better. Even if it’s by a little bit.”

— Julie Murphy

37. “If you only love what comes easy for you, you’ll find you don’t have much to love.” -Abuela.”

— Julie Murphy

38. “It’s sad that sometimes we let ourselves believe that if it’s not bad, it must be good.” p237.”

— Julie Murphy

39. “You don’t always get to choose who your heart wants.”

— Julie Murphy

40. “I choose guys. I choose girls. I choose people. But most of all: I choose.”

— Julie Murphy

41. “Sometimes catastrophes split you in half and even if all the pieces are there, they might not ever fit back together.”

— Julie Murphy

42. “I’ve wasted a lot of time in my life. I’ve thought too much about what people will say or what they’re gonna think. And sometimes it’s over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn’t good enough. But you don’t have to bother with that nonsense. I wasted all that time so you don’t have to.”

— Julie Murphy

43. “A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.”

— Julie Murphy

44. “And why is everyone always trying to take money away from libraries? Aren’t books sort of the reason we’re even in school at all?” -Callie.”

— Julie Murphy

45. “For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.”

— Julie Murphy

46. “It’s like how I notice some girls have big boobs or shiny hair or knobby knees. Those things are okay to say. But the word fat, the one that best describes me, makes lips frown and cheeks lose their color.”

— Julie Murphy

47. “I want more,′ he says. ‘I want more with you. I want to hold hands in public. I want to drive you home from work and give you a kiss good night. And talk on the phone so late we fall asleep.”

— Julie Murphy

48. “The idea that I’m someone’s best friend fills my rib cage with summer.”

— Julie Murphy

49. “Lucy always said that the greatest friends have nothing and everything in common all at once. Y’all girls are different versions of the same story, she would say. But these last two months, I feel like we’re being pulled in different directions, and I’m the only one who seems to notice.”

— Julie Murphy

50. “In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.”

— Julie Murphy