Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Maybe because you don’t always have to win a pageant to wear a crown.”

— Julie Murphy

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

57. “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

58. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

61. “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

62. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

64. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

66. “Like, the way they talk about gay people and loving the sinner but not the sin. I mean, if you can’t love the whole of a person, do you really love them at all?”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

69. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

71. “Sometimes it’s easy to forget that quiet moments mean just as much as the loud ones, because it’s not always about moving. Sometimes it’s about sitting perfectly and quietly still.”

— Julie Murphy

72. “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

73. “Actually,” Stacy says, “Stanley Tucci is everyone’s type.”

— Julie Murphy

74. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

76. “Water has always been my siren song. Any kind of water – oceans, lakes, pools. There’s something about being weightless that makes me think anything is possible. My whole body exhales in a way that it can’t when I’m standing on land.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

78. “This thing between us is a roller coaster. The brakes might be out and the tracks might be on fire, but I can’t make myself get off the ride.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

80. “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

81. “This in-box full of unopened messages is the truest reminder that we are temporary fixtures in a permanent world.”

— Julie Murphy

82. “It’s not like I woke up one day and decided to become a vampire. My humanity was violently stolen from me. I’m continuing on, the only way I know how.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

86. “My whole body finally connected the dots, and I realized that even if we were never together, she’d ruined me and I’d never feel that way about anyone again.”

— Julie Murphy

87. “If that sounds confusing to you, join the club.”

— Julie Murphy

88. “There are times when I feel like I can’t be me. I can’t simply exist. I have to offer something in exchange. Something that absolves me of being fat and gay and even worse – both of those things at once.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

90. “I don’t know how to form the words to explain to El that not only did I get my first kiss, but it ended up being a full-on make-out session.”

— Julie Murphy

91. “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

92. “Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn’t know I could be. I’ve never owned anything like it. But if when you see this – when you see me- you think it’s a pity, that it’s a shame I didn’t lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder.”

— Julie Murphy

93. “We did this grown-up thing. This really adult thing. But we were still ourselves. We still laughed and made jokes. I expected to feel like this whole new person, but really it was me – plain old me – making this decision that I can never unmake.”

— Julie Murphy

94. “I guess the magic of being someone else is lost when you can never quite shed your own skin.”

— Julie Murphy

95. “To my mom, powdered iced tea is almost as bad as the possibility of being left behind in the wake of the rapture. “You.”

— Julie Murphy

96. “Everyone has one thing they absolutely hate about themselves.”

— Julie Murphy

97. “Sometimes half of doing something is pretending that you can.”

— Julie Murphy

98. “No matter how much I tell myself that the fat and the stretch marks don’t matter, they do.”

— Julie Murphy

99. “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

100. “Hannah shouldn’t have to get braces. Maybe she can’t afford them or maybe she’s scared to get them. Either way, she shouldn’t have to fill her mouth with metal so that some shitheads will leave her alone.”

— Julie Murphy