Puddin' (Dumplin', #2)

by Julie Murphy

exercising only existed for the sake of becoming someone I’m not instead of taking care of who I am.

she’s been trying to become that girl again—“the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen.” The irony is that she has always been that girl to my dad.

But something in me has always felt like the more people you share your hopes with, the flimsier they become.

But I kind of wonder what it feels like to love something so much that you’re even happy to fail at it.”

Maybe it’s too much effort to change the world. Maybe the only way to survive is to change myself.