317 Quotes by Miranda July

I could see it so clearly, the zygote- shiny and bulbous, filled with the electric memory of being two but now damned with the eternal loneliness of being just one. The sorrow that never goes away.

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.

You seem incredibly faraway to me, like someone on the other side of a lake. A dot so small that it isn’t male or female or young or old; it is just smiling.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can’t see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state – it’s not totally real. I’m always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.

Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy.

I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.

Maybe he wouldn’t say anything, which is the worst thing men do.

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