Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “If the shoe fits,’ he whispers.”

— Julie Murphy

152. “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

153. “But we can’t walk around scared all the time. That’s no way to do things.”

— Julie Murphy

154. “You’re like an anti-depressant in human form.”

— Julie Murphy

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

161. “I get called a freak everyday. I might as well make a show of it.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

164. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

166. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

173. “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

174. “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

175. “It was the thing I planned out in my head in those moments between asleep and awake when my brain was unable to tell the difference between dreams and reality.”

— Julie Murphy

176. “Since the day she died, I’ve felt that Lucy was only mine to memorialize and that if I faltered, I’d be letting her down in the worst kind of way. The realization that she wasn’t just mine comes as a painful relief.”

— Julie Murphy

177. “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

178. “She was dying and I was living and I didn’t know how we could do both at the same time.”

— Julie Murphy

179. “I was so scared that all the big things I wanted would never be anything more than wants.”

— Julie Murphy

180. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

186. “I gasp. I feel it like a knife in the back. My mind betrays my body. The reality of him touching me. Of him touching my back fat and my overflowing waistline, it makes me want to gag.”

— Julie Murphy

187. “If I could avert my eyes from all the kissing people ever, I’m positive that my life would be at least 2 percent more fulfilling.”

— Julie Murphy

188. “Even though Clover City feels like one big joke sometimes, it’s my joke. My charming joke of a town that thrives on beauty pageants and dance teams and a football team that couldn’t figure out how to win a game if the other team had forfeited, but underneath it all, it’s more than that small-town stereotype. It’s a shithole. But it’s my little shithole.”

— Julie Murphy

189. “I hate phrases like that. “Jesus vocab,” El would call them. Things you learn in church that are hammered into you until they’re so normal that you expect everyone else who doesn’t go to church to know what you mean.”

— Julie Murphy

190. “I like you,” I whispered, taking her coffee from her and setting it on the table next to mine. “I like you so much that it scares me. And when I think about leaving and never seeing you again, it makes me feel like something’s being yanked out of me. Something important, something that I need to breathe and eat and live. I want more than memories with you, Bee. I want moments upon moments.”

— Julie Murphy

191. “I’m not that girl. I don’t spend hours staring in the mirror, thinking of all the ways I could be better. Me shrinking away from his touch embarrasses me in a way I don’t entirely understand.”

— Julie Murphy

192. “My magic truth – the thing that has changed everything for me.”

— Julie Murphy

193. “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

194. “So this is creepy,′ I say, motioning to the school with my non-key-shiv hand.”

— Julie Murphy

195. “My first kiss. It’s the fastest thing that lasts forever.”

— Julie Murphy

196. “I think there’s this survival instinct inside all of us that clicks on when we see other people failing. It makes me feel gross and incredibly human.”

— Julie Murphy

197. “For a moment, there’s nothing but silence. And it’s hard for me not to imagine Mom reaching over and taking Dad’s hand. I know everything has changed for them, but how do you just turn it off? How do you just stop loving someone? Mom and Dad weren’t just Mom and Dad. They were best friends too.”

— Julie Murphy

198. “It was the cruelest thing about bipolar disorder, I thought; there was never one thing that worked forever. No one med, no one dose, no one routine. My mom said it was like walking on a rope bridge, where every step was slightly different from the last and sometimes you had to stop and just hold on until you could find your balance again. But she also liked to remind me that sometimes the views from her bridge were incredible too.”

— Julie Murphy

199. “Don’t you see how belittling this is! I’m not brave for wearing a dress. I’m just living!”

— Julie Murphy

200. “I don’t get it – how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve.”

— Julie Murphy