Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

103. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

105. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

107. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

109. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

117. “Really, the criteria is simple. Do you have a body? Put a swimsuit on it.”

— Julie Murphy

118. “Not everyone who goes to private school is rich. Especially not the poor kids who can play basketball.”

— Julie Murphy

119. “Just the thought of Dad crying made me cry too.”

— Julie Murphy

120. “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

121. “I’m not ashamed of my dreams. But something in me has always felt like the more people you share your hopes with, the flimsier they become. Suddenly everyone else is poking holes in your future until there’s not much left to hope for at all” -Millie.”

— Julie Murphy

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

129. “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

130. “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

131. “But I wondered sometimes, the way your mind asks those big questions, like whether or not there’s a god or how a girl can think she’s ugly one day and pretty the next.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

133. “Clover City is the type of place you leave. It’s love that either sucks you in or pushes you away. There are only a few who really make it out and stay out, while the rest of us drink, procreate, and go to church, and that seems to be enough to keep us afloat.”

— Julie Murphy

134. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

136. “My heart is elastic. I realize it for the first time. For so long I thought there was a limit to how much love I could hold and who I could give it to. But life is so much more dynamic than that. Love doesn’t disappear when you give it away, and new love doesn’t make old love any less legitimate.”

— Julie Murphy

137. “She’d call us her bee-utiful girls and take us for hot chocolate on Mondays, because Fridays didn’t deserve all the attention. It was funny. I used to think of myself as a Monday and Ellen as a Friday. But Mondays and Fridays were just twenty-four-hour stretches of time with different names.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

141. “Girls don’t have to be nice, 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” -Abuela.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

143. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

145. “I wish I could tell you that everything will be fine, but loving people is risky business. Things don’t always pan out how we think they should. But I gotta think that when the risk is worth it, it’s super worth it.”

— Julie Murphy

146. “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

147. “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

148. “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 them.”

— Julie Murphy

149. “I looked up at him, his lips just a breath from mine. “I love you too, Nolan. I love you in the dark. I love you in the light. I love you everywhere.” He tilted his head up and yelled with all his might. “I love you, Bee Hobbes! I love you loud enough for the world to hear!” And then he turned his face down to me, nuzzling his nose against mine. “I love you so much that when you’re not near me, I feel like I’m missing an actual organ,” he whispered.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy