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. “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

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

106. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

108. “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

109. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

111. “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

112. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

115. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

118. “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

119. “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

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

124. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

126. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

128. “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

129. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

131. “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

132. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

134. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— 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. “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

139. “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

140. “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

141. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

144. “I don’t need a church to be a Christian. And I don’t have to be thin to be a good person. Or a pretty person.”

— Julie Murphy

145. “I’m constantly left to wonder if the people we are online will lever materialize in real life.”

— Julie Murphy

146. “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

147. “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

148. “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

149. “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

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

— Julie Murphy