Pat Murphy

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to…

— Pat Murphy

“I thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel better, I think. 'I liked…

— Pat Murphy

“But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I…

— Pat Murphy

Sometimes, you gotta believe something crazy. Because all the other things you could believe hurt too much.

— Pat Murphy

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

— Pat Murphy

“He arranged three hundred pairs of women’s shoes on the stairway that climbed from Taylor Street to Broadway. High heels and flats,…

— Pat Murphy

“We talked about each story for a while, and then Verla talked about heroes and villains. 'Nobody is all good or all…

— Pat Murphy

“He was a strange lad—with a peculiar, dreamy air about him that made some think he was dim-witted. But he wasn’t stupid—he…

— Pat Murphy

“Verla says that no one thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.”

— Pat Murphy

“I wasn't wearing war paint. But that didn't matter. I didn't need war paint. I was a different person than I had…

— Pat Murphy

“You are afraid of us. You are afraid because you don't know what we might do.”

— Pat Murphy

“JOIN THE CIRCUS OF CHAOS ... juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination.”

— Pat Murphy

I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to…

— Pat Murphy

“If you don’t believe in ghosts, then I dare you to run around the old man’s grave. Three times. Counterclockwise.” John thought…

— Pat Murphy

“Verla says that nobody thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.”

— Pat Murphy