Julie Murphy Quotes:

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.

Topics: Scared, Cry

I didn't want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

Topics: Crazy, Want, Kind, Kinds Of Love, Crazy Love

The older I got, the more aware I became of time and how I was wasting mine.

For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.

Topics: Air, Long, Remember

Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.

Topics: Hate, Love Is, People, Gray Area, Sometimes Love

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

Topics: Expectations

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

Topics: Girl, Blow, Bird

I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.

Topics: Feelings, Deals, Feels

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

Topics: Lunch, Special, Spiders, Tasty

In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.

Topics: Years, Long, Lasts

Does love still exist if you can’t say it? If you can’t admit it?

source: - Julie Murphy (2014). “Side Effects May Vary”, p.216, Penguin UK

Topics: Doe, Stills, Ifs

I’d always heard that when you truly love someone, you’re happy for them as long they’re happy. But that’s a lie. That’s higher-road bullshit. If you love someone so much, why the hell would you be happy to see them with anyone else? I didn’t want the easy kind of love. I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

Topics: Crazy, Lying, Long, If You Love Someone, Crazy Love

I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.

Topics: Past, Thinking, Excited