Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “But now I felt trapped, like a homeless person who’d been given their dream home only to suffer from intense wanderlust because we always want something until we have it.”

— Julie Murphy

102. “When someone calls me brave for going out or wearing a fitted dress or for some other normal thing that every other girl does, what it really means is: I would be mortified to look like you, but good for you for merely existing even if all I can think about is how fat you are and how I’m terrified I’ll one day look like you. So brave.”

— Julie Murphy

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

106. “You’re too young to be a middle-aged man.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

108. “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

109. “Sometimes it’s important to do things for the people you love even when those things don’t make a lick of sense to you.”

— Julie Murphy

110. “It wasn’t just the look of Dolly that drew us in. It was the attitude that came with knowing how ridiculous people thought she looked, but never changing a thing because she felt good about herself. To us, she is... invincible.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

112. “All my life I’ve had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it’s that if it’s not your body, it’s not yours to comment on.”

— Julie Murphy

113. “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

114. “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

115. “I think you gotta be who you want to be until you feel like you are whoever it is you’re trying to become.”

— Julie Murphy

116. “Admittedly, as a librarian I find concierge back channels deeply sexy.”

— Julie Murphy

117. “Starting at a new school kind of stinks. Even if everyone is pretty cool. But it’s not the same. At my old school me and my friends started a club called Paranormal Appreciation Society. How could I ever find anything that cool again?”

— Julie Murphy

118. “I don’t know why people have to go on dates,” Mitch says. “If we called it hanging out or something, there’d be so much less pressure. But a date, God, that’s like some huge thing to live up to.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

120. “Use it,” he says. “Whatever it is that had you hung up. An ex, a death, or just plain old depression. The best part about crossing any bridge is the chance to look back and be able to fully understand where you came from. You’re not a machine. You’re not a computer. You’re an artist, and any good artist knows life feeds into art and art feeds into life.”

— Julie Murphy

121. “Hey!” I tell him. “Desperate times called for desperate measures.”

— Julie Murphy

122. “This feeling that the world was so pleased to call love destroyed people every day and it would do that to me too.”

— Julie Murphy

123. “You know, we used to be stuck writing letters to each other and waiting weeks or even months to hear back. The phone is a modern miracle, and now all of a sudden we’re too cool for it?”

— Julie Murphy

124. “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

125. “The coat was black and drab and obviously purchased for the sake of utility without any thought of fashion. It’s the type of sacrifice you make when you’re a bigger person.”

— Julie Murphy

126. “It seems to me that childhood ends and adult life beings the moment you stop believing your parents can rescue you.”

— Julie Murphy

127. “Damn,” I hiss. “I’m sorry to hear about your grandpa.” There’s so much more I want to say. But there’s some invisible barrier there between us created by the years we’ve spent apart. He.”

— Julie Murphy

128. “My stepmom. She’s big into stars and astrology.”

— Julie Murphy

129. “It’s like there’s a bright neon sign above my head with an arrow pointing right on me. Worst Daughter of the Year.”

— Julie Murphy

130. “Beautiful, he says. Fat, I think. But can’t I be both at the same time?”

— Julie Murphy

131. “My mind is a maze and I’m chasing a shadow.”

— Julie Murphy

132. “She’s got that nervous energy that spawns anytime you’re about to share something you love with someone and are suddenly thinking of all of its flaws you’re usually indifferent to.”

— Julie Murphy

133. “I think fairy tales might be more like cautionary tales than anything else. And fate is just an excuse for people to be inactive participants in their own lives.”

— Julie Murphy

134. “Sometimes figuring out who you are means understanding that we are a mosaic of experiences” -Willowdean.”

— Julie Murphy

135. “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

136. “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

137. “When your options are limited to being miserable in private or being mortified in public, there is no choice. I can’t get on the plane.”

— Julie Murphy

138. “I want to tell her that she should wait. But she and Tim have been dating for almost a year and a half and she still blushes every time she talks about him. I don’t know how to measure love, but that seems like a good place to start. And I don’t know that I’d be asking her to wait for any other reason than me.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

140. “When the world isn’t selling what you’re looking to buy, you just have to take it upon yourself to cut your own pattern.”

— Julie Murphy

141. “Lo que merece la pena recordar es que, sea cual sea nuestro signo, somos nosotros los que forjamos nuestro destino.- Loraine.”

— Julie Murphy

142. “But the doors open, and I’m slightly grateful for it, too. Because how do people even function like this? Like, how is it that people can even pump gas or pay bills or tie their shoes when they’re in love? Or might be in love. Or are in love. Or are in between the two.”

— Julie Murphy

143. “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

144. “All the best things in my life have started with a Dolly Parton song.”

— Julie Murphy

145. “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

146. “And there it is. I fell in love. I’m in love with Henry Mackenzie. I always assumed I would have a difficult time knowing if I was in love. What if I didn’t recognize the signs? Or what if it wasn’t as intoxicating as the whole world has built it up to be? But, for me, it feels very simple. It’s the kind of thing I know with just as much assurance as my birthday. It’s not something I feel lost in or confused by. It’s a truth, and some truths hurt more than others.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

148. “The body I have shouldn’t change how deserving I am of my dreams. – Millie.”

— Julie Murphy

149. “I hate that there’s never anyting good on TV on Saturday afternoons. It’s like even the networks are trying to get you off your ass and have a life.”

— Julie Murphy

150. “But isn’t that the point of labels like boyfriend and girlfriend? To make things easier for other people? Isn’t that sad? It’s like the whole world has to walk around with name tags on so we can all feel more comfortable? I guess things are less scary if you know what to call the.”

— Julie Murphy