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1. "We come from long lines of people destined never to meet." ~ Miranda July

2. "Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen." ~ Miranda July

3. "I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn't just movies that couldn't contain the full cast of characters — it was us. We had to winnow life down so we knew where to put our tenderness and attention; and that was a good, sweet thing. But together or alone, we were still embedded in a kaleidoscope, ruthlessly varied and continuous, until the end of the end." ~ Miranda July

4. "I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was fifteen. The answer always used to be yes. But in time, all those boys had faded away, and my parents were still there. I was now less and less willing to kill them for anyone; in fact, I worried for their health. In this case, however, I had to say yes. Yes, I would." ~ Miranda July

5. "He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to." ~ Miranda July

6. "Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am." ~ Miranda July

7. "I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had." ~ Miranda July

8. "The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder." ~ Miranda July

9. "I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left." ~ Miranda July

10. "It wasn't just movies that couldn't contain the full cast of characters — it was us. We had to winnow life down so we knew where to put our tenderness and attention; and that was a good, sweet thing. But together or alone, we were still embedded in a kaleidoscope, ruthlessly varied and continuous, until the end of the end. I knew I would forget this within the hour, and then remember, and forget, and remember. Each time I remembered it would be a tiny miracle, and forgetting was just as important — I had to believe in my own story." ~ Miranda July

11. "I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it." ~ Miranda July

12. "I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic." ~ Miranda July

13. "Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?" ~ Miranda July

14. "I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle." ~ Miranda July

15. "Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did together? I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't." ~ Miranda July

16. "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

17. "Your sentimentality softens all the edges, you're misremembering. Take a moment to recall it as it really was: fucking hell." ~ Miranda July

18. "If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him." ~ Miranda July

19. "I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before." ~ Miranda July

20. "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

21. "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

22. "They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark")." ~ Miranda July

23. "I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment." ~ Miranda July

24. "I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.'" ~ Miranda July

25. "We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do." ~ Miranda July

26. "When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis." ~ Miranda July

27. "I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling." ~ Miranda July

28. "Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you." ~ Miranda July

29. "What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real." ~ Miranda July

30. "I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again." ~ Miranda July

31. "Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise." ~ Miranda July

32. "But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us." ~ Miranda July

33. "That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it." ~ Miranda July

34. "He stood right in front of me and pinched my arm and said, Can I see your room?Such relief. Even the pinch was good. I understood completely about needing to hurt someone at the same time that you are giving them something." ~ Miranda July

35. "Sadness is pathetically limited to the range of thirst, it is just a sip of emotion, tightly buckled to a frown, quenchable." ~ Miranda July

36. "He called the feeling between us "weird," and I had nothing to add. I kissed the backs of his legs and they sang. He reached around and pulled me down onto his back and I lay there, like on the warm sand of a beach. Just that. That is all there is. That is the whole point of everything." ~ Miranda July

37. "I was going to die and it was taking forever." ~ Miranda July

38. "I typed "royal family" into a dream-interpretation website, but they didn't have that in their database, so then I typed "butt" and hit "interpret," and this came back: To see your buttocks in your dream represents your instincts and urges. It also said: To dream that your buttocks are misshapen suggests undeveloped or wounded aspects of your psyche. But my butt was shaped all right, so that let me know my psyche was developed, and the first part told me to trust my instincts, to trust my butt, the butt that trusted him." ~ Miranda July

39. "Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them." ~ Miranda July

40. "Quería perforarlo, hacerle un agujero y llenar ese agujero con mi cuerpo." ~ Miranda July

41. "He didn't call me for a few weeks. This was customary within our friendship, confide and retreat, but I wondered. I wondered if perhaps our last conversation had been an overture. Not the conversation, exactly, but the silences within it. There had been many dark pits of tea-sipping silence; looking back, I could imagine placing my hand on his hand while kneeling in one of these dark pits. And in such a pit could one even be sure what one was doing? One might seek solace in a friend and literally go inside this friend to get the solace; and the friend, being old and familiar, might give especially good solace." ~ Miranda July

42. "Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees." ~ Miranda July

43. "I could not make a move without making love." ~ Miranda July

44. "She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry." ~ Miranda July

45. "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

46. "When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and I was easy to love. 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." ~ Miranda July

47. "It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done." ~ Miranda July

48. "Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered." ~ Miranda July

49. "This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed." ~ Miranda July

50. "As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the world within a world, the internet. The things outside of the web were becoming further from me, and everything inside it seemed piercingly relevant. The blogs of strangers had to be read daily, and people nearby who had no web presence were becoming almost cartoonlike, as if they were missing a dimension. It was just happening, like time, like geography. The web seemed so inherently endless that it didn't occur to me what wasn't there. My appetite for pictures and videos and news and music was so gigantic now that if something was shrinking, something immesurable, how would I notice?...Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine loosing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time." ~ Miranda July

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