I was wondering if my life, the life in which I had a son and a beautiful, young girlfriend, could exist outside of the hospital. Or was the hospital… - Miranda July

Was I like honey thinking it’s a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?

I would always be earthbound; he hadn’t robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.