34 Quotes by Julie Murphy

That’s because your parents can’t help you breathe if they can’t breathe for themselves. You understand?

Bo se inclina hacia mí y engancha las manos detrás de mis orejas, atrayéndome hacia él. Nuestros labios se rozan, de manera tan leve que me hace cosquillas, pero no llega a ser un beso.—Quiero besarte —sus palabras se derraman justo en mi boca—. Y lo haré muy pronto, aunque esta vez no voy a estropearlo.

I've wasted a lot of time in my life. I've thought too much about what people will say or what they're gonna think. And sometimes it's over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn't good enough. But you don't have to bother with that nonsense. I wasted all that time so you don't have to.

I can’t imagine any version of Oscar I wouldn’t want in my life.

I’ll never figure out how it is that some people can work so hard and get paid so little, while so many people who are paid the most hardly work at all.

Starting at a new school kind of stinks. Even if everyone is pretty cool. But it’s not the same. At my old school me and my friends started a club called Paranormal Appreciation Society. How could I ever find anything that cool again?

I get what he means, because I think I've played pretend my whole life. I don't know when, but a really long time ago, I decided who I wanted to be. And I've been acting like her -- whoever she is -- since. But I think the act is fading, and I don't know if I like the person I am beneath it all. I wish there were some kind of magic words that could bridge the gap 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.

I obviously don’t know the whole story here, but good friendships are durable. They’re meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains.

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.