Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

156. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

169. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

171. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

174. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

179. “For the longest time, I thought the power of positive thinking would get me by. And it helps, that’s for dang sure. But it takes more than thinking and hoping and wishing and praying. You need a whole lot of doing.”

— Julie Murphy

180. “It’s not that I don’t like new people. It’s just that, in general, I do not like new people.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

186. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

194. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

197. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

199. “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

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

— Julie Murphy