Miranda July: Trending quotes (page 2)

“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.”

“It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.”

“Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.”

“He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.”

“He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.”

“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”

“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.”

“When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.”

“She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.”

“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?”

“I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.”

“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 had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.”

“Live the dream, Potato.”

“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.”

“Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.”

“He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.”