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101 " You care for me?" My jaw twitched. "Alice, I- I care about our principal, and my boss, and the lady at the donut shop who gives me extra donut holes. But I love you," I spat. "And you know what that feels like? It's like a fucking cheese grater against my heart. "
― Julie Murphy , Side Effects May Vary
102 " Your life changes sometimes and it only takes a few words to bridge the gap between now and then. "
― Julie Murphy
103 " 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 , Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)
104 " Sometimes half of doing something is pretending that you can. "
105 " Y’all girls are different versions of the same story, "
106 " You know, we used to be stuck writing letters to each other and waiting weeks or even months to hear back. The phone is a modern miracle, and now all of a sudden we're too cool for it? "
― Julie Murphy , Ramona Blue
107 " Plus, having sex doesn’t make you a woman. That is so freaking cliché. "
108 " I, on the other hand, talk like the world will only continue to spin if it can revolve around me.I like listening to you talk. He laighs. It's kinda like Stockholm syndrome. At first it was a little terrifying, but now it's sorta comforting. Like, the world could be ending, but I would come to work and you'd be talking like it's your duty. "
109 " I--I'm sorry for asking. I have the manners of a cat in a box of bubble wrap. Like, it's a problem. "
110 " Choose what makes you happy. Things, places, people. Only choose the ones that bring that delight to you. Don’t be a hostage to duty or obligation. I didn’t carry you and birth you and raise you to waste your precious life on anything except unbridled joy. Choose joy. "
― Julie Murphy , If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be, #1)
111 " I had loved her for so long. I didn’t think it was possible for me to feel any more for her, like she had already maxed out all my feelings. But that wasn’t how it worked. That night Alice swallowed up a whole piece of me I never knew existed. She ruined me that night. "
112 " 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. "
113 " There’s something about swimsuits that make you think you’ve got to earn the right to wear them. And that’s wrong. "
114 " On that cold night in January it all slipped into place for me and she became my everything and my everyone. My music, my sun, my words, my hope, my logic, my confusion, my flaw. "
115 " I know guys aren’t supposed to cry, but I cried a bunch that night. 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. "
116 " 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. "
117 " As sweet as it was for him to help me with my boots, there’s something powerful about taking off my own clothing and choosing to reveal myself to someone as dear to me as he is. "
118 " Child, you don’t need heels. You’re fierce all on your own.” She "
119 " Water has always been my siren song. Any kind of water—oceans, lakes, pools. There’s something about being weightless that makes me think anything is possible. My whole body exhales in a way that it can’t when I’m standing on land. "
120 " I don’t know why people have to go on dates,” Mitch says. “If we called it hanging out or something, there’d be so much less pressure. But a date, God, that’s like some huge thing to live up to. "