Thomas Brand

40 Miranda July Quotes For When Life Starts Feeling Painfully Absurd

Because sometimes life can be stranger than fiction. 
Heidi Priebe
October 19, 2016
“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
“She looked as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
Tagged: Betrayal
“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
“Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Life, habits, Love, Loving, Relationships
“She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Compassion, Love
“I could not make a move without making love.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Love
“Time had stopped while she was gone.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Time, Absence
“I wanted to look at everything through her eyes. 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, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Tagged: Perspective, Love, Relationships, New Relationships
“I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.”
— Miranda July, It Chooses You
Tagged: Beginning, Ending, Life, Creative Process, Writing
“It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.”
— Miranda July, It Chooses You
Tagged: People, Life, fiction