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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5a00c4e | The rest of the house was perfectly in order, as it always is, thanks to my system. It doesn't have a name--I just call it my system. Let's say a person is down in the dumps, or maybe just lazy, and they stop doing the dishes. Soon the dishes are piled sky-high and it seems impossible to even clean a fork. So the person starts eating with dirty forks out of dirty dishes and this makes the person feel like a homeless person. So they stop bat.. | Miranda July | ||
| c6f2b1e | What an amazing thing to be asked. Right now, tucked into the warmth of my car with this unanswerable question before me--this might have been my favorite moment of all the lifetimes. | Miranda July | ||
| 556c181 | Fear was for poor people. Maybe this was the happiest I'd ever been. | Miranda July | ||
| 805e7c7 | Everything in the bathroom was white. I sat on the toilet and looked at my thighs nostalgically. Soon they would be perpetually entwined in his thighs, never alone, not even when they wanted to be. But it couldn't be helped. We had a good run, me and me. I imagined shooting an old dog, an old faithful dog, because that's what I was to myself. Go on, boy, get. I watched myself dutifully trot ahead. Then I lowered my rifle and what actually h.. | Miranda July | ||
| f2039a0 | Show us life, now | Miranda July | ||
| 7836807 | C'etait quelqu'un de complexe, avec de nombreuses strates d'emotions qui remontaient a la surface, certaines spirituelles, certaines torturees de maniere plus seculiere, et il brulait d'amour pour moi. | Miranda July | ||
| 954b652 | Ce n'est pas de votre faute. | Miranda July | ||
| b0c7e8a | Always running and always wanting to go back but always being farther and farther away until finally it was just a scene in a movie where a girl says hello into the cauldron of the world and you are just a woman watching the movie with her husband on the couch and his legs are across your lap and you have to go to the bathroom. | Miranda July | ||
| 73b6912 | It's okay; I know you want them to look at you. Who? Men. No, I don't. If you do that, then I can't be with you anymore. This was, in a way, the most romantic thing she had ever said to me. It implied that we were living together not because we had grown up together and were the only people we knew, but because of something else. Because we both didn't want men to look at me. | Miranda July | ||
| 87e1c97 | One reason Helena and I would never be close friends is that I am about half as tall as she. 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 | ||
| 8102d5f | I excused him for the cover and for everything else. For not yet being a New Man. We fell into silence then; he did not ask me any more questions. I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People. | Miranda July | ||
| 1253b1e | It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told. | Miranda July | ||
| 0ce18bc | It was still diving, it was still letting go of mammalian pride and embracing gravity. | Miranda July | ||
| 47b8be0 | And as I crawl, I realize that this one was the Big One. It was the earthquake that shook the whole world, and every single thing was destroyed. But this isn't the scary part. That part always comes right before I wake up. I am crawling, and then suddenly, I remember: the earthquake happened years ago. 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, b.. | morose | Miranda July | |
| ac5055c | I'll be the first to say, It's so beautiful here. The sooner you say, It's so beautiful here, the quicker you can say, Wow, I'm getting overheated. | Miranda July | ||
| b5833fa | Don't wait to be sure or you'll miss the boat, hop on and move, move, move. | Miranda July | ||
| b8450fd | I wonder, for instance, if our laws reflect some deep aversion amongst medical professionals here towards the idea of relinquishing control of the dying process into the hands of the patient. I wonder if this aversion might stem from a more general belief in the medical profession that death represents a form of failure. And I wonder if this belief hasn't seeped out into the wider world in the form of an aversion to the subject of death per.. | dying medical-profession | Miranda July | |
| 564485a | Many of the people there were in their twenties and thirties, and I wondered if they were Blanca or the friends of Blanca..There were also people in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies, and these people had a chance of being Blanca, too, or the parents of Blanca, or grandparents or even great-grandparents of Blanca, if Blanca was a child. There were a few children running around, sisters of brothers, who could be Blanca or Blanca.. | miranda july | ||
| 4a78b30 | Our bleak reality was now apparent: we couldn't leave and we couldn't change partners. | Miranda July | ||
| b10963b | When I began to write, it was out of fear. I thought I might forget, or pretend to forget, or pretend to pretend, or grow up. | Miranda July | ||
| d84b53b | What most people would do in my situation is go to their boyfriend's house. They would go there and cry and be handed tissues and cry some more and never stop to think that they should really be laughing and smiling joyfully because their boyfriend is an actual physical being on the same plane of reality as them. | Miranda July | ||
| ac6aa96 | Food seemed impossibly strange. Children thought I was a child and tried to play with me, but I could neither play nor work, I could only wonder why. Why do people live at all. | Miranda July | ||
| ff08c28 | She didn't think she would have bothered if she hadn't been what people call "very beautiful except for." This is a special group of citizens living under special laws. Nobody knows what to do with them. We mostly want to stare at them like the optical illusion of a vase made out of the silhouette of two people kissing. Now it is a vase ... now it could only be two people kissing ... oh, but it is so completely a vase. It is both! Can the w.. | Miranda July | ||
| 1d2f76c | Romance. My utter lack of friends who shared my interests. Romance. The Soul. Romance. Life on other planets. Romance. | Miranda July | ||
| 4aaa194 | Remember, you don't have to make the whole world romantic, or even the whole bedroom. Just the small space in front of your face. A very manageable territory, even the working women will agree. | Miranda July | ||
| 3405018 | You can't wear that outfit around Fiona." "I earned the right to wear this uniform." "And you should be commended for that. But my donation to the KCPD Widows & Orphans Fund gives me the right to decide how you dress around my daughter. I don't want her frightened or put off by the military-looking attire. She likes jewel-tone colors. Do you have anything like that you could wear? Jeans or slacks are acceptable over the holidays." "Jewel.. | julie-miller | Julie Miller | |
| 1f2a61d | A neighbor with a green thumb and no yard. That's all. Would this be the first of many awakenings? | Miranda July | ||
| 290be77 | I had written the same word seven thousand times attempting to alchemize time. | Miranda July | ||
| 0aa9d0f | I ran a bath. Just before I stepped in the tub, I heard the front door close and froze in midstep; she was gone. Sometimes she did this. In the moments where other couples would fight or come together, she left me. | Miranda July | ||
| 86ec3f6 | The subtitle of the book was Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships. I was working through it, word by word. So far I had done Keeping and was just starting on Love. I worried that by the time I got to Committed and Relationships, I would have forgotten Keeping. Not to mention Alive and all the other words. | Miranda July | ||
| e4cb173 | It doesn't really feel like driving when you don't know where you're going. There should be an option on the car for driving in place, like treading water. Or at least a light that shines between the brake lights that you can turn on to indicate that you have no destination. I felt like I was fooling the other drivers and I just wanted to come clean. But the more I drove, the more I felt like I had somewhere to go. I was making difficult le.. | Miranda July | ||
| d097d8d | I feel into the eyes of every person I passed on the street. | Miranda July | ||
| 4648e4c | Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness? | Artemus Ward | ||
| fa17a88 | I saw the darkness swirling inside him. I saw that his feet did not touch the ground when he played basketball at recess. In moments, he was flying. Not like a bird but subtly, like a person. | Miranda July | ||
| a3c0b79 | The boy, who himself was so compelling in the way boys can be. How he pushed his hair off his sweaty forehead, the mineral smell of him, his hand holding a pencil, holding a pencil, holding a pencil, his hand! | Miranda July | ||
| 0c12610 | The boy looks at his teacher. The sun is shining into his eyes and he squints, and there is a pause wherein the shining of the sun and the squinting of the boy are the only two movements on earth. | Miranda July | ||
| cbe6a11 | We learned to be discreet. It helped that nobody really cares about anyone but themselves anyway. | Miranda July | ||
| 0f580f6 | Thus, over the years, I came to know her. Not the way I knew him; I didn't watch the minute tides of her sweat roll in and out over the course of each day. But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us. She seemed to have room for me; she never turned away in the pauses that allow for turning away. She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling. Some people need a red car.. | Miranda July | ||
| c519160 | That's the problem with men my age, I'm somehow older than them. | Miranda July | ||
| 91fde89 | I didn't say anything. He would have to step over my dead body to get off the phone. | Miranda July | ||
| 20634e2 | But I couldn't put a face to the feeling; it was a dissolving thought, like a dream that hurries away when you approach it. | Miranda July | ||
| 07e7ab9 | Each word he said was boring, but collectively, the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief. Always being the heaviest person in the house had been exhausting. I sipped my tea and leaned back into the couch. When he left I would have to shift the weight back onto my own shoulders again. But that was a problem for later. | Miranda July | ||
| bf917a3 | Each word he said was boring, but collectively, the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief. Always being the heaviest person in the house had been exhausting. I sipped my tea and leaned back into the couch. When he left I would have to shift the weight back onto my own shoulders again, but that was a problem for later. | Miranda July | ||
| 1d58a64 | Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief. Always being the heaviest person in the house had been exhausting. I sipped my tea and leaned back into the couch. When he left I would have to shift the weight back onto my own shoulders again, but that was a problem for later. | Miranda July |