Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.
Miranda JulyAnd why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her?
I dumped him.
Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough.
I promise you that wasn't it.
Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough.
Four hundred.
Not enough.
i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..
Miranda JulyI expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.
Miranda JulyLife is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.
Miranda JulyIt 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 JulyDon't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.
Miranda JulyIt was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.
Miranda JulyIn an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.
Miranda JulyIf you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.
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