317 Quotes by Miranda July

Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can’t answer these questions, especially not at 6am.

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we’d already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes.

They were sparkling with the old love, the greatest love of my lifetime. And they were triumphant.

Morning had gotten lost on the way home. We would lie this way forever, always saying goodbye, never parting.

If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don’t know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don’t know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.

I was never good at jumping in, letting go of one element and embracing another.

Like a rich person, I live with a full-time servant who keeps everything in order – and because the servant is me, there’s no invasion of privacy.

I would always be earthbound; he hadn’t robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?