Top 100 Julie Murphy Quotes
#1. I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they're miserable with themselves or if they're the jolly best friend. Well, I'm neither of those things.
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#2. You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?
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#3. I wish every day of my life could be this absurd.
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#4. Then he left, and with him he took the sun, the moon, the stars, and anything inside of me that might have been good.
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#5. Child, you don't need heels. You're fierce all on your own." She
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#6. There's a version of the future in my head where I stay here forever....Bleak, I know. But, still, there's a lot of comfort that comes with knowing how your life is going to turn out. I've never had a surprise turn out in my favor.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I guess the magic of being someone else is lost when you can never quite shed your own skin.
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#9. there is no higher achievement for a southern woman than the ability to eat barbecue and walk away stain free.
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#10. 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.
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#11. I think maybe it's the things we don't want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear.
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#12. But the good news is that since this is the worst day ever, tomorrow can only be better. Even if it's by a little bit.
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#13. My first kiss. It's the fastest thing that lasts forever.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Your life changes sometimes and it only takes a few words to bridge the gap between now and then.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. - Dolly Parton
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#18. Does love still exist if you can't say it? If you can't admit it?
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#19. A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.
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#21. For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.
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#22. Hannah shouldn't have to get braces. Maybe she can't afford them or maybe she's scared to get them. Either way, she shouldn't have to fill her mouth with metal so that some shitheads will leave her alone.
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#23. I don't really enjoy it, Mom."
"And you've always felt this way?"
"I don't know. I guess I want a break.
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#24. 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.
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#25. It's okay. Suddenly, the pain is starting to fade."
"Yeah, revenge does that.
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#26. 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?
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#27. I want more,' he says. 'I want more with you. I want to hold hands in public. I want to drive you home from work and give you a kiss good night. And talk on the phone so late we fall asleep.
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#28. And who the hell was that twiggy bitch?" As soon as it's out of my mouth I regret it. 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. Fat. Skinny. Short. Tall. It doesn't matter. But
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#29. I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.
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#30. 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.
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#31. thanks to Harvey, the year I died had become the year I lived. I
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!
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#35. This feeling that the world was so pleased to call love destroyed people every day and it would do that to me too.
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#36. 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.
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#37. I fell asleep, with her curled int my chest and my chin resting on top of her head, scared for tomorrow because this was too perfect to last.
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#38. I was so scared that all the big things I wanted would never be anything more than wants.
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#39. You've never dated any guys?'
I shrug. 'Haven't even kissed one.' And then I add, 'Well, in recent years.'
'Then how do you know you don't like guys?'
'I don't know, Freddie,' I say, trying to hide my irritation. 'How many boys did you kiss before you realized you were straight?
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#40. This is me. Back me up or back the fuck out.
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#41. I couldn't promise him the things he wanted because Harvey wanted forever. And that had been so much easier to give him when forever had an expiration date.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Aha! I take my three keys on my ring (car, house, El's) and hold my hand in a fist so that each of the keys is peeking out from between my fingers. I remember seeing this on a self-denfense special of Maury. Television saves lives.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Well, aren't you just having a come-apart?
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. All my favorite things start as bad ideas.
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#49. There were aches that couldn't be medicated. I guessed there were just some things that had to be felt.
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#50. So this is creepy,' I say, motioning to the school with my non-key-shiv hand.
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#51. To appear effortless requires much effort.
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#53. Lucy always said that the greatest friends have nothing and everything in common all at once. Y'all girls are different versions of the same story, she would say.
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#54. Not everyone who goes to private school is rich. Especially not the poor kids who can play basketball.
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#55. The older I got, the more aware I became of time and how I was wasting mine.
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#57. I don't get why we call it a crush when it feels more like a curse.
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#58. 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.
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#59. I choose guys. I choose girls. I choose people. But most of all: I choose.
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#60. In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.
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#61. Maybe you only ever notice the distance when it's you who's being left behind.
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#62. I may be uncomfortable, but I refuse to be ashamed
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#63. I'm fat. I'm happy. I'm insecure. I'm bold.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Marcus mumbles something about PMS and to my surprise, from the kitchen, Bo says, "Why can't she just be having a shitty day? You don't need to make up some bullshit reason why.
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#66. There's something about swimsuits that make you think you've got to earn the right to wear them. And that's wrong. Really, the criteria is simple. Do you have a body? Put a swimsuit on it.
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#67. I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.
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#68. What about having huge, bumpy thighs means that I need to apologize?
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#69. You can't apologize for my feelings and expect things to be better." He paused. "Especially not when you're the reason for them.
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#70. But if I told Harvey that, there would be no more secrets and he would move in even closer. And that couldn't happen. The closer he got, the more answers I owed him.
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#71. Good friendships are durable. They're meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains.
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#72. 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
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#73. Actually, at home, my parents simply referred to him as "bro.
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#74. But maybe Lucy wasn't supposed to be your compass forever. Maybe she was there for you just long enough so you could learn how to be your own compass and find your own way." She winks at me. "The universe is a strange thing.
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#75. The idea that I'm someone's best friend fills my rib cage with summer.
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#76. High school did that to you, turned you into pieces of driftwood. and the parts of you that you tried to keep in one piece became the property of the wind and the water, sending those dear pieces everywhere you were not.
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#77. She hated that book. El's not the type of person who can read something that's made her cry and think it was good because it touched her. No, books or movies that make Ellen cry infuriate her. Like, it's some kind of betrayal.
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#78. En pointe she was a force, a tornado: safe to look at from a distance, but in close proximity, you risked being just another piece of her debris. Some days I thought I could only be so lucky.
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#79. I hate this idea that boys are thinking about sex nonstop and girls are thinking about - what? Stationery and garden gnomes? No.
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#80. Perfection is nothing more than a phantom shadow we're all chasing
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#81. I get called a freak everyday. I might as well make a show of it.
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#82. Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.
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#83. When it was for you," he said, his voice soft. "I enjoyed playing the piano when it was for you.
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#84. I don't get it - how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve.
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#85. 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.
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#86. She was right. Karma was a bitch, but so was I.
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#87. Sometimes figuring out who you are means understanding that we are a mosaic of experiences. I'm Dumplin'. And Will and Willowdean. I'm fat. I'm happy. I'm insecure. I'm bold.
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#88. I don't even want to win, but 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.
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#89. I think you gotta be who you want to be until you feel like you are whoever it is you're trying to become. Sometimes half of doing something is pretending that you can.
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#90. I wish there were some kind of magic words that could bridge the cap 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.
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#91. 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?
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#92. I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.
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#93. Y'all girls are different versions of the same story,
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#94. I didn't want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.
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#95. My first thought isn't that I'm gay or that Freddie is a boy or that he's one of my best friends. His lips are lips. They're soft and they taste like pumpkin pie and whiskey.
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#96. To my mom, powdered iced tea is almost as bad as the possibility of being left behind in the wake of the rapture. "You
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#97. 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.
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#98. Beautiful, he says. Fat, I think. But can't I be both at the same time?
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#99. My mind is a maze and I'm chasing a shadow.
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#100. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.
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