quotes by Miranda July

"What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something known. "
— Miranda July

"Live the dream, Potato."
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You)

"The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul."
— Miranda July

"This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else."
— Miranda July

"People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you."
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

"But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us."
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

"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

"It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly."
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

"Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed."
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

"In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. 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 (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

"He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all."
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)