Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Beautiful, he says. Fat, I think. But can’t I be both at the same time?”

— Julie Murphy

152. “But everything happens for the first time at some point, so why can’t that first time be me?”

— Julie Murphy

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

160. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

162. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

167. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

169. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

177. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

179. “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

180. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

182. “She had this way, when she wasn’t talking about foreign politics or global warming, of making sense of all the complex things I never knew how to describe.”

— Julie Murphy

183. “There’s something about early mornings that makes me feel like I’ve got the whole planet to myself.”

— Julie Murphy

184. “I feel good. It makes me feel good. To be wanted, but not had.”

— Julie Murphy

185. “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

186. “I can’t imagine any version of Oscar I wouldn’t want in my life.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

188. “I may be uncomfortable, but I refuse to be ashamed.”

— Julie Murphy

189. “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

190. “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

191. “And that’s it. Tenth grade is over. The parking lot is all primal cheers and tires screeching. But I don’t have it, that sense of progress. Instead, I feel stuck, waiting for my own life to happen.”

— Julie Murphy

192. “Actually, at home, my parents simply referred to him as “bro.”

— Julie Murphy

193. “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

194. “You can’t expect the younger version of you to know who your friends are going to be. People change.” -Callie.”

— Julie Murphy

195. “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

196. “Dr. Meredith was a large, robust man, and jolly too, with rosy cheeks and this perpetual baby-powder smell. I always thought he would be better suited as a Santa Claus at the Green Oaks Mall rather than a doctor charged with the duty of delivering earth-shattering news. Maybe his appearance was supposed to soften the blow. The bad news is you have cancer. The good news is Santa Claus is your doctor. Peppermint stick for your trouble?”

— Julie Murphy

197. “Oh, I need you,” I tell her. “I need you like Oprah needs Gayle.”

— Julie Murphy

198. “I suck in a breath. This is what it feels like when your life starts happening, I think.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

200. “Starting at a new school kind of stinks. Even if everyone is pretty cool. But it’s not the same. At my old school me and my friends started a club called Paranormal Appreciation Society. How could I ever find anything that cool again?”

— Julie Murphy