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181 " 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 , Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)
182 " 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. "
183 " good friendships are durable. They’re meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains. "
184 " When someone calls me brave for going out or wearing a fitted dress or for some other normal thing that every other girl does, what it really means is: I would be mortified to look like you, but good for you for merely existing even if all I can think about is how fat you are and how I’m terrified I’ll one day look like you. So brave. "
― Julie Murphy , If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be, #1)
185 " guess the magic of being someone else is lost when you can never quite shed your own skin. "
186 " We kicked off the night with pizza—courtesy of my dad—and a plethora of online quizzes. (Yes, I did google “slumber party activities.” No, I did not expect to be inundated with pornography.) "
― Julie Murphy , Puddin' (Dumplin', #2)
187 " All the best things in my life have started with a Dolly Parton song. Including my friendship with Ellen Dryver. "
188 " I don’t blame him,” he continues. “It’s that feeling of people leaving. It’s scary. "
189 " or a niece, or a token fat girl. Just Willowdean. The feeling of it makes me miss El. But I’m tired of other people making me feel this way. I’m ready to make myself feel this way. "
190 " kind of wonder what it feels like to love something so much that you’re even happy to fail at it. "
191 " This moment. It is the truest representation of my mom I have ever seen. 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. "
192 " Like, the way they talk about gay people and loving the sinner but not the sin. I mean, if you can’t love the whole of a person, do you really love them at all? "
193 " 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. "
194 " No sé qué pasa con los bañadores que te hacen pensar que debes ganarte el derecho a llevarlos. Y no es así. En realidad, la cuestión es muy simple: ¿no tienes un cuerpo? Pues ponte un bañador. "
195 " There's nothing good about losing someone. 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. The universe is a strange thing" -Lee "
196 " I want to tell her that she should wait. But she and Tim have been dating for almost a year and a half and she still blushes every time she talks about him. I don’t know how to measure love, but that seems like a good place to start. And I don’t know that I’d be asking her to wait for any other reason than me. "
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. "
198 " having sex doesn’t make you a woman. That is so freaking cliché. If you want to have sex, have sex, but don’t make it this huge thing that carries all this weight. You’re setting yourself up for disappointment. "
199 " is it so bad to want some chemistry? A little bit of spark that makes me feel like we’re the only people in the world for ten minutes. "
200 " Mitch doesn’t talk to him like he’s some little kid. Because to Mitch, he’s not. To Mitch, everyone’s somebody. "