Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

103. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

105. “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

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. “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

109. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

111. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

113. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

115. “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

116. “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

117. “There’s some kind of peace that comes with knowing that for every person who is waiting to be found, there’s someone out there searching” -Willowdean.”

— Julie Murphy

118. “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

119. “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

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

123. “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

124. “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

125. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

127. “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

128. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

135. “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

136. “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

137. “Go big or go home’ – Willowdean.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

139. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

141. “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

142. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

144. “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

145. “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

146. “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

147. “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

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