Miranda July: Trending quotes (page 3)

“I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.”

“I could not make a move without making love.”

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

“She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.”

“Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.”

“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.”

“I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.”

“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.”

“In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.”

“It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.”

“We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.”

“I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.”

“… we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.”

“We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.”

“We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.”

“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.”

“I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.”

“And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her?
I dumped him.
Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough.
I promise you that wasn't it.
Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough.
Four hundred.
Not enough.”

“I was going to die and it was taking forever.”