Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?
Miranda JulyI realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.
Miranda JulyWe 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 JulyI don't tally the world, asking, "Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you?" That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.
Miranda July