No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Carl: The unfeeling, controlled microbiotic husband, extra on the movie set.
• Sarah: Tom's wife, Lyon's mother in "How to Tell Stories to Children"
• Tom: Sarah's husband, Lyon's mother, Deb's ex-boyfriend in "How to Tell Stories to Children"
• Lyon: Messed up daughter of Tom & Sarah, beloved pseudo-stepdaughter of Deb.
• Kate: Pip's short-term girlfriend in "Something That Needs Nothing".
• Kelda: Elderly swim pupil in "The Swim Team".
• Steve: Add a description of this character.
• Jack Jack
• Victor: Works in the leather handbag factory in "The Sister" and has a "sister" named Blanca.
• Helena
• Kevin
• Vincent: The epileptic Korean neighbor in "The Shared Patio".
• Allen: Manager of the peep show/video porn store in "Something That Needs Nothing".
• Madeleine L’engle: Children's book author of A Wrinkle in Time, wife of the university writing teacher whom the young author in "Making Love in 2003" comes to see with her manuscript.
• Blanca: Victor's sister.
• Ed Borger: The family therapist whom Tom, Sarah, Deb and Lyon meet with for a few months in "How to Tell Stories to Children".
• Tammy
• Leanne
• Ellen: The accountant's wife in the sewing class with the secretary in "Ten True Things".
• Ruth
• Paul
• Deb: Tom's ex-girlfriend and Lyon's sorta stepmom in "How to Tell Stories to Children".
• Theresa

Quotes edit see section history

• “People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it.”

  Dana

• “We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant we were not alone in this world.”

• “I walked down the hall and saw that Theresa was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It’s a slippery slope, and it’s best to just sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you’re not sure if you are one.”

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• Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

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• I don’t believe in psychology, which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don’t.

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• It’s not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.

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• That 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. Or if I’m in a hot tub with some other people and we’re all looking up at the stars, I’ll be the first to say, It’s so beautiful here. The sooner you say, It’s so beautiful here, the quicker you can say, Wow, I’m getting overheated.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Miranda July (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Adults only.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › United States
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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