Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “The idea that I’m someone’s best friend fills my rib cage with summer.”

— Julie Murphy

52. “I guess it’s an awfully big sky not to share.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

54. “I believe the bad parts of us always live inside of us. It’s just up to us to take those flaws and repurposed them for good.”

— Julie Murphy

55. “At what point does another person’s extraordinary become you ordinary?”

— Julie Murphy

56. “Loyalty isn’t blind. Even when I wish it was. Loyalty is telling someone they’re wrong when no one else will.”

— Julie Murphy

57. “She hated that book. El’s not the type of person who can read something that’s made her cry and think it was good because it touched her. No, books or movies that make Ellen cry infuriate her. Like, it’s some kind of betrayal.”

— Julie Murphy

58. “The older I got, the more aware I became of time and how I was wasting mine.”

— Julie Murphy

59. “And I guess that’s when I decided being good at something didn’t mean you had to do it. Just ’cause something’s easy doesn’t make it right.”

— Julie Murphy

60. “And when he parts his lips with mine, I don’t think about it. Because for the first time in my life, I fit. I fit without any question.”

— Julie Murphy

61. “When you love someone enough, you accept their flaws. You make sacrifices to keep them sane.”

— Julie Murphy

62. “God created dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.”

— Julie Murphy

63. “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.”

— Julie Murphy

64. “Good friendships are durable. They’re meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains.”

— Julie Murphy

65. “I wish there was something better to say than ‘I’m sorry.”

— Julie Murphy

66. “But everything happens for the first time at some point, so why can’t that first time be me?”

— Julie Murphy

67. “I think you gotta be who you want to be until you feel like you are whoever it is you’re trying to become. Sometimes half of doing something is pretending that you can.”

— Julie Murphy

68. “Stories change hearts and then hearts change the world.”

— Julie Murphy

69. “But Mondays and Fridays were just twenty-four-hour stretches of time with different names.”

— Julie Murphy

70. “Then he left, and with him he took the sun, the moon, the stars, and anything inside of me that might have been good.”

— Julie Murphy

71. “I know thinking like that isn’t gonna get me anywhere. And it’s the exact reason why I’m not going to fat camp and obsessing over diets with my mom anymore, but all those horrible thoughts still exist. I’m just trying to figure out how to live in spite of them.”

— Julie Murphy

72. “Even the wrong direction sometimes feels better than no direction at all” -Millie.”

— Julie Murphy

73. “It’s just a word. Doesn’t mean anything unless you let it.”

— Julie Murphy

74. “I think being embarrassed by your parents is as much a part of growing up as getting taller.”

— Julie Murphy

75. “I wish there were some kind of magic words that could bridge the gap between the person I am and the one I wish I could be. Because the whole fake it till you make it thing? It’s not working for me.”

— Julie Murphy

76. “You will. One day you’ll wake up and find that there’s a woman, or maybe a few, who have outlasted every changing season in your life.”

— Julie Murphy

77. “Lucy was the most confident. Her confidence scared me. I just can’t imagine her to want to do something and not do it.”

— Julie Murphy

78. “There are so many things that Lucy never did. Not because she couldn’t, but because she told herself she couldn’t and no one made her believe otherwise.”

— Julie Murphy

79. “I try not to cringe. Dog-earing a book feels like a violation of some sacred unspoken rule.”

— Julie Murphy

80. “That’s because your parents can’t help you breathe if they can’t breathe for themselves. You understand?”

— Julie Murphy

81. “We get what we get. We don’t fret.”

— Julie Murphy

82. “Sometimes figuring out who you are means understanding that we are a mosaic of experiences. I’m Dumplin’. And Will and Willowdean. I’m fat. I’m happy. I’m insecure. I’m bold.”

— Julie Murphy

83. “I tell myself that I don’t have to hold myself to anything because no one else even knows about it except me.”

— Julie Murphy

84. “I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they’re miserable with themselves or if they’re the jolly best friend. Well, I’m neither of those things.”

— Julie Murphy

85. “I know that fat girls are supposed to be allergic to pools or whatever, but I love swimming. I mean, I’m not stupid. I know people stare, but they can’t blame me for wanting to cool off. And why should it even matter? What about having huge, bumpy thighs means that I need to apologize?”

— Julie Murphy

86. “I understand that life after high school is probably something I should be thinking about, but I can’t picture me in college and I don’t know how to plan for something I can’t imagine.”

— Julie Murphy

87. “Well, aren’t you just having a come-apart?”

— Julie Murphy

88. “Choose what makes you happy. Things, places, people. Only choose the ones that bring that delight to you. Don’t be a hostage to duty or obligation. I didn’t carry you and birth you and raise you to waste your precious life on anything except unbridled joy. Choose joy.”

— Julie Murphy

89. “As sweet as it was for him to help me with my boots, there’s something powerful about taking off my own clothing and choosing to reveal myself to someone as dear to me as he is.”

— Julie Murphy

90. “Her boyfriend, Camdon or Brandon or whatever his name is, tosses Callie his wallet and says, ‘Gotta take a leak.’ They exchange a kiss – which, I mean, why? Is he going to drown in the toilet?”

— Julie Murphy

91. “I kind of wonder what it feels like to love something so much that you’re even happy to fail at it.”

— Julie Murphy

92. “This moment. It is the truest representation of my mom I have ever seen. 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

93. “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.”

— Julie Murphy

94. “I promise I only have the normally allotted amount of mommy issues.”

— Julie Murphy

95. “The pageant and football pull this little town out of itself and turn it into something more. Because when those stadium lights are on or when that curtain parts, we are the best version of ourselves.”

— Julie Murphy

96. “What’s important to remember though is that despite our signs, we still make our own destiny.”

— Julie Murphy

97. “I obviously don’t know the whole story here, but good friendships are durable. They’re meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains.”

— Julie Murphy

98. “Diet Dr. Pepper is my survivalist elixir, my lifeblood, if you will.”

— Julie Murphy

99. “I know. They don’t put fat girls on the news. Well, they didn’t let fat girls win runner-up in the Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pageant either. But everything happens for the first time at some point, so why can’t that first time be me?”

— Julie Murphy

100. “I guess... well, that’s what stories do. They connect people. Stories change hearts and then hearts change the world.”

— Julie Murphy