Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)

by Julie Murphy

What about having huge, bumpy thighs means that I need to apologize?

All my life I’ve had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it’s that if it’s not your body, it’s not yours to comment on. Fat. Skinny. Short. Tall. It doesn’t matter.

“Why can’t she just be having a shitty day? You don’t need to make up some bullshit reason why.”

I guess the magic of being someone else is lost when you can never quite shed your own skin.

I think maybe it’s the things we don’t want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear.

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.”

Maybe you only ever notice the distance when it’s you who’s being left behind.