317 Quotes by Miranda July

When you live alone people are always thinking they can stay with you, when the opposite is true: who they should stay with is a person whose situation is already messed up by other people and so one more won’t matter.

The level of control, that’s part of what’s so appealing about filmmaking – you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can’t do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

I smiled into the air the way I smiled when customers unbuckled their belts, and I made my eyes laugh as if everything were some version of a good time.

It must happen all the time, a fleeting passion overwhelms someone’s true course and there’s nothing to be done about it.

I gave you things I wasn’t sure I even had.

I was still feeling the old loss, just in a new way.

I wanted her to know, from the moment she heard my voice, that I was dying. I delivered a salutation so craven, so wretched, that it fell through language like pebbles. Hello.

But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway.

There were a series of closing kisses, goodbye kisses, kisses placed like lids on boxes – then the lid would pop off and need to be replaced. There, this is the final kiss – no, this is the final kiss. This one is, it really is. And now I’m just kissing that kiss good night.