“I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are…”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Identity, Self-Acceptance, Identity Crisis
“If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life, Loneliness, Living, Friendship, Love
“I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Beginning, Ending, Life, Creative Process, Writing
“I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Life
“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Love, Initiation, Relationships
“She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Compassion, Love
“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these thing…”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Doubts, Life, Belonging, Being Worthy
“Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Change, Decisions, Moving On, Life
“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Time, Change, Time Passing, Life, Moving On
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Reality, Life, Love, Perception, Idealism