317 Quotes by 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.

There’s all different kinds of people, but I don’t think it’s that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

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

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

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

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.

Tom began screaming, and I wondered if the baby’s soft brain was, in this moment, changing shape in response to the violent stimuli. I tried to intellectualize the noise to protect the baby’s psyche. I whispered: Isn’t that interesting to hear a man scream? Doesn’t that challenge our stereotypes of what men can do? And then I tried, Shhhhhhhhh.

Don’t wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one’s ever done that before. As if I’m literally the first person to ever write a book.