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Miranda July Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“A real mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it.”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man: A Novel
Tagged: Motherhood, Parenthood, Love
“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Life, Reality, Lies, Deceit, Nihilism
“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, No One Belongs Here More Than You
Tagged: Death, Life, Growing, Living, Budding Relationships, Hope
“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.”
— Miranda July, It Chooses You
Tagged: Meaning, Devotion, Love, Writing, Not Giving Up
“Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Desire, Wanting
“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?”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
Tagged: Letting Go, Love, Relationships, Greed, Acceptance, The Human Condition
“Given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone.”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, Relationships, romance
“I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Psychology, People, Human Nature, Social Animals
“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, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Life, Difficulty, Struggle, Love
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
Tagged: Illusion, Idealism, Imagination, Creativity, Reality, Perception
“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.”
— Miranda July, It Chooses You
Tagged: Life, Living, coping
“Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
Tagged: Change, Decisions, Moving On, Life
“She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Friendship, Relationships
“I gave you things I wasn’t sure I even had.”
— Miranda July, A quote by Miranda July
Tagged: Sacrifices, Things You Do For Love, love quotes, Love Matters
“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.”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Living, humanity, The Human Condition
“Like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Growth, Personal Growth, Change, Personal Development
“That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Life, Rushing, Relaxing, Savoring Life
“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
Tagged: Morality, humanity, Right And Wrong, Honesty, The Human Condition
“I could not make a move without making love.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Love
“What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
Tagged: Love, Falling Out Of Love, Lifespan, Change
“Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is not the thing you thought it would be. Poor people who win the lottery do not become rich people. They become poor people who won the lottery. ”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Desire, Lust, Wanting Something, Change
“I was going to die and it was taking forever.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Death, Living, Dying, Life
“Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered.”
— Miranda July, It Chooses You
Tagged: Life, Living, elements, Aching, Loving, The Digital Age
“Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Relationships, Wars, Morality, Right And Wrong, The Human Condition
“You know what? Forget what I just said. You’re already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. You will get old and decrepit, and you will die, exhausted from all that living. That is when you get to die. Not now.”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man: A Novel
Tagged: Living, Dying, Childhood, Growing Up
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