The Simile Museum

Tag: Miranda July

“That night I told Harris about the telephotographer, the real estate card, and the death of our neighbor. I was glad to have something major to report on; he had to say something—a man had died.

‘That’s sad. He was a young guy.’ Each word said like a dollar he wished he was spending elsewhere.”

-Miranda July, All Fours

“I washed my hands as if they were children, cradling first one and then the other.”

-Miranda July

“We stood there like mesmerized criminals who had forgotten to flee the scene.”

-Miranda July