It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting. Miranda July More Quotes by Miranda July More Quotes From Miranda July It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying. Miranda July growing dying way We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors. Miranda July mowing engagement believe Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else. Miranda July crazy broken way I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself. Miranda July depressing complicated way And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough. Four hundred. Not enough. Miranda July dumped-her kissing promise When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is. Miranda July knows tree love-is I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die. Miranda July died laughter laughing I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle. Miranda July middle ends dream In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil. Miranda July real men children We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond. Miranda July running order people When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many facts you will have to tackle with your imagination. It wasn't in the shape of a person, but right away I knew it was like a person in every way except for how it looked. As it turns out, our looks are not the main thing that makes us human. Miranda July imagination dark night We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is. Miranda July different knows wanted He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to. Miranda July stuck moon Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be. Miranda July would-be winning beautiful I could not make a move without making love. Miranda July make-a-move making-love moving He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more. Miranda July long-ago twenties moments We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world. Miranda July get-away mean world All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it. Miranda July body want people … it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin. Miranda July eye real sound She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry. Miranda July cry compassion looks
