Pumpkin Quotes

“The body I have shouldn't change how deserving I am of my dreams. - Millie”
― Julie Murphy, Pumpkin

“There are times when I feel like I can’t be me. I can’t simply exist. I have to offer something in exchange. Something that absolves me of being fat and gay and even worse—both of those things at once.”
― Julie Murphy, Pumpkin

“I always wanted to change the world. I know that's so corny. Of course everyone wants to change the world. I just always thought the only way I could do that was by being a senator or a mayor or something like that, but there's something about movies and stories. I want to help changes the rules, you know? To help make everything more fair. But no one cares about evening the playing field or changing the rules unless they have some kind of connection. I guess...well, that's what stories do. They connect people. Stories change hearts and then hearts change the world.”
― Julie Murphy, Pumpkin

“And why is everyone always trying to take money away from libraries? Aren't books sort of the reason we're even in school at all?" -Callie”
― Julie Murphy, Pumpkin

“When the world isn't selling what you're looking to buy, you just have to take it upon yourself to cut your own pattern.”
― Julie Murphy, Pumpkin

“Even though Clover City feels like one big joke sometimes, it's my joke. My charming joke of a town that thrives on beauty pageants and dance teams and a football team that couldn't figure out how to win a game if the other team had forfeited, but underneath it all, it's more than that small-town stereotype. It's a shithole. But it's my little shithole.”
― Julie Murphy, Pumpkin

“She's got that nervous energy that spawns anytime you're about to share something you love with someone and are suddenly thinking of all of its flaws you're usually indifferent to.”
― Julie Murphy, Pumpkin