Miranda July Quotes

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I had a wife at home who loved me, or later that my wife had left me and I was terrirfied, or again later that I had a beautiful alcoholic girlfriend who would make me happy forever. But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.

How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.

Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

I thought I was loved.