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The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life. — Miranda July

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us. — Miranda July

Where did they go, those things we did? — Miranda July

I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough - I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929. — Miranda July

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

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone. — Miranda July

It occurred to me that everyone's story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk. — Miranda July

The receptionist xeroxed my insurance card while explaining that chromotherapy isn't covered by insurance. — Miranda July

I could not make a move without making love. — Miranda July

I was never good at jumping in, letting go of one element and embracing another. — Miranda July

Their prayer was rage. — Miranda July

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. — Miranda July

I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left. — Miranda July

A teenage Filipino boy walked up to the car and just stood there, the way people do when disaster strikes. — Miranda July

Was everything redneck actually mystical? — Miranda July

I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it. — Miranda July

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything. — Miranda July

I felt like I could do this forever, because nothing mattered more than anything else. — Miranda July

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them. — Miranda July

The job of the artist is to point at things. — Miranda July

I had forgotten about the baby. Until then she had been giving birth to birth - to contractions and noises and liquids. There was someone in there. We — Miranda July

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes. — Miranda July

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

When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is. — Miranda July

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up. — Miranda July

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

I'm totally not kidding ... Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing. — Miranda July

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed. — Miranda July

Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. — Miranda July

I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.. — Miranda July

We held each other's hands and laughed with feigned embarrassment that gradually took hold and became real. — Miranda July

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would. — Miranda July

Was all this real to her? Did she think it was temporary? Or maybe that was the point of love: not to think. — Miranda July

I wanted to be the kind of teacher who learned from her students. — Miranda July

We had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond. — Miranda July

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep. — Miranda July

and together we pushed through paragraphs, painstakingly sounding out the words, knitting them into human sentences that said very little. — Miranda July

Morning had gotten lost on the way home. We would lie this way forever, always saying goodbye, never parting. — Miranda July

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. — Miranda July

She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare. — Miranda July

I was actually writhing in heartache, as if I were a single muscle whose purpose was to mourn. — Miranda July

Like a rich person, I live with a full-time servant who keeps everything in order - and because the servant is me, there's no invasion of privacy. — Miranda July

I had a joint once and I didn't feel right for a whole year. — Miranda July

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical. — Miranda July

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

A howl was curdling inside me; the ache felt inhuman. Or maybe this was my first human feeling. — Miranda July

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all. — Miranda July

She was standing on the moon and if I responded I would be on the moon too, right next to her. — Miranda July

I was going to die and it was taking forever. — Miranda July

I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves. — Miranda July

Just a sec. Just two months. Just a lifetime. Just a sec. — Miranda July

I was still feeling the old loss, just in a new way. — Miranda July

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. — Miranda July

Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do. — Miranda July

Sadness is pathetically limited to the range of thirst, it is just a sip of emotion, tightly buckled to a frown, quenchable. — Miranda July

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

I explained about how we were in Rick's hands and also how he had washed his hands. — Miranda July

The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder. — Miranda July

He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to. — Miranda July

Did you ever really love her?
Not really no.
But me?
Yes.
Even though I have no pizzazz? — Miranda July

Show us life, now — Miranda July

There was no apology in her eyes, no love or caring. But she saw me, I existed, and this lifted the beams off my shoulders. It takes so little. — Miranda July

Your sentimentality softens all the edges, you're misremembering. Take a moment to recall it as it really was: fucking hell. — Miranda July

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound. — Miranda July

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl — Miranda July

I hated my job, but I liked that I could do it — Miranda July

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet. — Miranda July

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

So this was what it was like not to be me. — Miranda July

I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had. — Miranda July

I'm not saying I asked for it, only that there are moments when we are sending signals not just to the boys in the room but to all of creation. — Miranda July

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move. — Miranda July

Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am. — Miranda July

I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me. — Miranda July

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers. — Miranda July

A real mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it. — Miranda July

I wouldn't use a British accent out loud, but I'd be using one in my head and it would carry over. — Miranda July

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness. — Miranda July

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else. — Miranda July

He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands. — Miranda July

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

We could smell each other's shampoo and the laundry detergents we had chosen and I smelled that she didn't smoke but someone she loved did[...] — Miranda July

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling. — Miranda July

She was a very beautiful person who was missing something very ugly. Her winnings were the absence of something, and this quality hung around her. — Miranda July

But I knew jumping was like dying, I would have to let go of everything. — Miranda July

People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it. — Miranda July

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them. — Miranda July

Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing. — Miranda July

I kept getting older while he stayed young, my tiny husband. — Miranda July

I guess that's true, you really can't complain, can you? — Miranda July

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world. — Miranda July

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

Live the dream, Potato. — Miranda July

She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry. — Miranda July

It had not occurred to me that it would get this bad, that indignity would dance upon bloodshed. — Miranda July

I was patience defined, patience misspelled, patience sounded out slowly, letter by letter, with the t pronounced shh. — Miranda July