Top 200 Julie Murphy Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I was so scared that all the big things I wanted would never be anything more than wants.”

— Julie Murphy

152. “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

153. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

156. “I wish there was something better to say than ‘I’m sorry.”

— Julie Murphy

157. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

166. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

176. “The pageant and football pull this little town out of itself and turn it into something more. Because when those stadium lights are on or when that curtain parts, we are the best version of ourselves.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

178. “What’s important to remember though is that despite our signs, we still make our own destiny.”

— Julie Murphy

179. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

183. “Child, you don’t need heels. You’re fierce all on your own.” She.”

— Julie Murphy

184. “I don’t blame him,” he continues. “It’s that feeling of people leaving. It’s scary.”

— Julie Murphy

185. “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

186. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

188. “I get what he’s saying. When you’ve known someone for so long, you don’t see the same things in them that everyone else does. But then when you’re friends because of who you were and not who you are, it’s hard not to find the common thread that stitches you together.”

— Julie Murphy

189. “Maybe you only ever notice the distance when it’s you who’s being left behind.”

— Julie Murphy

190. “But you have Aurelia. She’s, like, your ride or die. I don’t have a lifelong BFF like that.” “You will. One day you’ll wake up and find that there’s a woman, or maybe a few, who have outlasted every changing season in your life.”

— Julie Murphy

191. “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

192. “There are so many things that Lucy never did. Not because she couldn’t, but because she told herself she couldn’t and no one made her believe otherwise.”

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy

198. “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

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

— Julie Murphy

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

— Julie Murphy