Puddin' Quotes

“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.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“I kind of wonder what it feels like to love something so much that you’re even happy to fail at it.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“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.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“Girls don't have to be nice," she says simply. "But they should stick together...The wider world wants you to think other women are drama...or catty. But that's just because when we work together, we're unstoppable....One day you'll wake up to find that there's a woman, or maybe a few, who have outlasted every changing season of your life.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“Sometimes we have to break the rules to get what we want. But now I think it’s time we change them.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“I try not to cringe. Dog-earing a book feels like a violation of some sacred unspoken rule.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“If you only love what comes easy for you, you'll find you don't have much to love." -Abuela”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“Find the things you love and do them every day, even if it means failing. That's all there is to it.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“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.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“I believe the bad parts of us always live inside of us. It's just up to us to take those flaws and repurposed them for good.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“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.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“Even the wrong direction sometimes feels better than no direction at all.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“But everything happens for the first time at some point, so why can't that first time be me?”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“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.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“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?”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“I'm constantly left to wonder if the people we are online will lever materialize in real life.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“I guess...well, that's what stories do. They connect people. Stories change hearts and then hearts change the world”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“Find the things you love and do them every day, even if it means failing. That's all there is to it" -Abuela”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“I'm not ashamed of my dreams. But something in me has always felt like the more people you share your hopes with, the flimsier they become. Suddenly everyone else is poking holes in your future until there's not much left to hope for at all" -Millie”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“Love is in the details" -Millie”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“Diet Dr. Pepper is my survivalist elixir, my lifeblood, if you will.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“God created dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“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.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“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.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“kind of wonder what it feels like to love something so much that you’re even happy to fail at it.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“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.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“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?”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“My magic truth—the thing that has changed everything for me”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“Even the wrong direction sometimes feels better than no direction at all" -Millie”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“Callie: I don't have a lifelong BFF like that.
Abuela: 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.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'