Miranda July Quotes

In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few int...

After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. ...

As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the worl...

The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like ...

I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a...

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

Tom began screaming, and I wondered if the baby's soft brain was, in this moment, changing shape in ...

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of...

I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if...

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But th...

Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for pu...

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to...

For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ...

And it struck me that maybe True magazine had been wrong. Maybe there are no New Men. Maybe there ar...

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been b...

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?...

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.

In the recurring dream everything has already fallen down, and I’m underneath. I’m crawling, sometim...

She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.

We still kissed frequently, usually a cluster of small pecks. An acronym for our early deep kisses. ...

This person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe ...

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, ...

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

So this was what it was like not to be me.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. ...

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying pa...

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone coul...

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

Why do you think we are the only animal that kisses? She was near again. Because the area in front o...

And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. ...