Dumplin Quotes

#1. Let's part
equals, as we were in every bed, pure
equals of the earth

Sharon Olds

#2. If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

Barbara Boxer

#3. I never boned a honey that I didn't like,
I never saw a mile that I couldn't hike.
I never had a spliff to make me choke,
I never had a pocket that was broke.

Dres

#4. I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.

Holly Madison

#5. 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

#6. I was so scared that all the big things I wanted would never be anything more than wants.

Julie Murphy

#7. The future is as dark, as unreal, as the past.

John Gardner

#8. 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.

Julie Murphy

#9. Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

Chuck Hagel

#11. So this is creepy,' I say, motioning to the school with my non-key-shiv hand.

Julie Murphy

#12. I am a total badass. A fat badass.

Julie Murphy

#13. I'd like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that's fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.

James Langevin

#14. I want to be some body's dumplin'. I'm not chicken.

Amanda Mosher

#15. 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.

Julie Murphy

#16. I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.

Robbie Williams

#17. You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking, 'I hate the world.'

Michel Houellebecq

#18. The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. 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.

Julie Murphy

#20. 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?

Julie Murphy

#21. If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

Madame De Stael

#22. The fat kids, the skinny kids, the tall ones, the short ones, and everybody in between: I am so thankful that not a single one of us is the exact same. What a boring world that would be.

Julie Murphy

#23. Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder.

Julie Murphy

#24. My mind is a maze and I'm chasing a shadow.

Julie Murphy