317 Quotes by Miranda July

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it’s not true. Generally, people don’t like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered again, It’s not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.

I don’t think I’m more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I’m more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I’m not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

There was no apology in her eyes, no love or caring. But she saw me, I existed, and this lifted the beams off my shoulders. It takes so little.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us. She seemed to have room for me; she never turned away in the pauses that allow for turning away.

I was patience defined, patience misspelled, patience sounded out slowly, letter by letter, with the t pronounced “shh.

I was actually writhing in heartache, as if I were a single muscle whose purpose was to mourn.

I had a joint once and I didn’t feel right for a whole year.

I wanted to be the kind of teacher who learned from her students.