We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
Miranda JulyHe breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.
Miranda JulyThat is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.
Miranda JulyTwo plus three is five, check the email, one plus seven is, check the email, eight, check the email, which comes to a total of, who the hell am I anyway, eighty five. This is how he dismembers his day, in the most painful way, moment by moment. A bigger man would just shoot it, put it out of its misery.
Miranda JulyShe bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.
Miranda JulyThings usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.
Miranda JulyHe pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.
Miranda JulyWhen you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.
Miranda JulyI 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 JulySome people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.
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