Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The body I have shouldn’t change how deserving I am of my dreams. – Millie.”

— Julie Murphy

102. “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

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

106. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

108. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

110. “I think so many of us waste too much time dreaming of the things we believe we can’t have. But I’m done dreaming. I’m ready to make my dreams my reality.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

112. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

115. “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

116. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

118. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

128. “I like the idea of keeping my world in these little compartments where there is no risk of collision.”

— Julie Murphy

129. “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

130. “I get what he means, because I think I’ve played pretend my whole life. I don’t know when, but a really long time ago, I decided who I wanted to be. And I’ve been acting like her – whoever she is – since. But I think the act is fading, and I don’t know if I like the person I am beneath it all. 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

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

— Julie Murphy

132. “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

133. “It’s not that I’m jealous of Ellen and Tim or that Tim steals Ellen away from me or even that I want Tim for myself. But I want what they have. I want a person to kiss hello.”

— Julie Murphy

134. “If the shoe fits,’ he whispers.”

— Julie Murphy

135. “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

136. “The only voice that isn’t there – the one I need the most – is my own.”

— Julie Murphy

137. “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

138. “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

139. “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

140. “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?”

— Julie Murphy

141. “That feeling I get when I’m riding my bike down the steep hill of Freddie’s street is the only way I know how to explain it. The world around me is a blur except for him. I feel like.”

— Julie Murphy

142. “I wanted to be honest with you, Alice. But then you got sick. I couldn’t do that to you.”

— Julie Murphy

143. “What about having huge, bumpy thighs means that I need to apologize?”

— Julie Murphy

144. “I know guys aren’t supposed to cry, but I cried a bunch that night. 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

145. “I think the good stuff is always supposed to be a little scary.”

— 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. “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

148. “It doesn’t have to be pressure to find something new or be someone else all of a sudden. Maybe you do decide to go back to dance. You don’t need a team to dance. Or maybe you want to be an engineer or work at a makeup counter. It doesn’t matter.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy