Miranda July Quotes

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them “too much effort.

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was - even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.

Every girl is beautiful if they have the ability to believe in themselves.

She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I’m not the great love of his life, the one he’ll never forget.” “You are to me,” I say.

I believe every PERSON is beautiful. What you do with that beauty, how you develop it, is up to you.

Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I find people confusing.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Beautiful is dangerous.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.