“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 how do they cope inside of it.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, coping
“I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Psychology, People, Human Nature, Social Animals
“You know what? Forget what I just said. You’re already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. Y…”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Living, Dying, Childhood, Growing Up
“Like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Growth, Personal Growth, Change, Personal Development
“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 question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside…”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Sadness, Connection, Pain, humor
“Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Desire, Wanting
“Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Bored, Boredom, Relationships, Love
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Letting Go, Holding On, Change
“That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life, Rushing, Relaxing, Savoring Life
“People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Loving, The Human Condition
“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a…”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Morality, humanity, Right And Wrong, Honesty, The Human Condition
“I wanted to look at everything through her eyes. I do this before I bring someone new into my life; I try to get a sense of who I am so that I can make it easier for them to know me.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Perspective, Love, Relationships, New Relationships
“Time had stopped while she was gone.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Time, Absence
“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life, Difficulty, Struggle, Love
“We had fallen in love; that was still true. But given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone or anything.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, Relationships
“What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Affairs, Improbable Love
“It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: People, Life, fiction
“Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life, habits, Love, Loving, Relationships
“I was going to die and it was taking forever.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Death, Living, Dying, Life
“I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this—caring for this boy—as opposed to some other way? I would always be earthbound; he hadn’t robbed me of my ability to fly or to live foreve…”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Self-Pity, Life, Motherhood, Childhood, Mortality
“A real mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Motherhood, Parenthood, Love
“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 not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and hea…”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, elements, Aching, Loving
“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 unexpected meaning over time.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Meaning, Devotion, Love, Writing, Not Giving Up
“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Living, humanity, The Human Condition
“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Death, Life, Growing, Living, Budding Relationships
“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life, Reality, Lies, Deceit, Nihilism
“She looked as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Betrayal
“Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to sa…”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Wars, Morality, Right And Wrong, The Human Condition
“She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Relationships