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1 " I try not to cringe. Dog-earing a book feels like a violation of some sacred unspoken rule. "
― Julie Murphy , Puddin' (Dumplin', #2)
2 " I don't exactly get to be moody or snappy when I don't feel like putting on a happy face, because when most people meet me, I'm already starting out with a deficit. Fat girls don't get that luxury. "
3 " Sometimes we have to break the rules to get what we want. But now I think it’s time we change them. "
4 " My magic truth-the thing that has changed everything for me-is this: the body I have shouldn't change how deserving I am of my dreams. I stopped obsessing over my body being too round or too wise or too lumpy. Because I'm not too much of anything. I am just enough. Even when I don't feel like I am. "
5 " 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. "
6 " I kind of wonder what it feels like to love something so much that you’re even happy to fail at it. "
7 " 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. "
8 " God created dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth. "
9 " I know thinking like that isn’t gonna get me anywhere. And it’s the exact reason why I’m not going to fat camp and obsessing over diets with my mom anymore, but all those horrible thoughts still exist. I’m just trying to figure out how to live in spite of them. "
10 " 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. "
11 " I think so many of us waste too much time dreaming of the things we believe we can’t have. But I’m done dreaming. I’m ready to make my dreams my reality. "
12 " Even the wrong direction sometimes feels better than no direction at all. "
13 " hearts "
14 " Oh, I need you,” I tell her. “I need you like Oprah needs Gayle. "
15 " 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.) "
16 " kind of wonder what it feels like to love something so much that you’re even happy to fail at it. "
17 " 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? "
18 " 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. "
19 " I know. They don’t put fat girls on the news. Well, they didn’t let fat girls win runner-up in the Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pageant either. But everything happens for the first time at some point, so why can’t that first time be me? "
20 " My magic truth—the thing that has changed everything for me "
