All Miranda July Quotes
- If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the… Allowed
- Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz? Ever Really
- We come from long lines of people destined never to meet. Destined
- Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's… Aching
- I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating. Body
- It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates… Act
- In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or… Animal
- It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk. Everyone
- I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that couldn’t contain the… Alone
- … it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this… Absorbed
- All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and… All
- I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about… Circle
- We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world. Alone
- He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that… Ago
- For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who… Blinked
- Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced… Actually Cry
- Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have… Badly
- He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to. Inspirational
- We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we… All
- I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle. Beginning
- When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many… Came
- We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once… Anyone
- Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did… Animal
- I moved his hair out of his face. I put my hand under his nose and felt gentle, even breaths. I pressed my lips against… Anyone