“I wondered for a moment if he was trying to get me to join a cult, but I realized it was just… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“not think about time or plans or deadlines or that rust spot in my old shower that bothered me so much or… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I think back to this moment sometimes now, look back at that person I was, months before I couldn't unknow what had… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“...no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I had just ruined it by reading Barthes at the wrong time. ( A Lover’s Discourse , Chandra said, was relationship poison .)” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“He was looking at me like I was a very nice thing of his that wasn't working quite like it should, like… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Losing Paul to time was far from the worst thing to happen to me, but the feeling doesn't always match the loss.… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Looking at each other, something made sense that hadn't made sense before...I still don't know what it is or was about him,… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I look back at this moment sometimes, the moment I accepted this job, and I have to wonder what kind of decision… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Someone said once that they'd never heard of a crime they couldn't imagine committing, and I realized then that if I had… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Isn’t everyone on the planet or at least everyone on the planet called me stuck between the two impulses of wanting to walk away… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“...no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“The late-afternoon light was thick and orange and she passed four different couples taking photos of themselves on the same cobblestoned block, all their… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at that framed… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“How someone wants to explain catastrophe isn't important--that's what I know now. When shit happens, it doesn't really matter what asshole is responsible.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“Eventually she got out of bed, took a long shower, gargling and spitting mouthfuls of water, then screaming, just a little and quietly.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“And I began to believe that you could exchange your life, send it back for a different model, and I knew that wasn’t really… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“I thought that if I could ever do a background check on myself, I knew exactly what I'd do with it. I wouldn't even… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“ We have reached a point as a culture, where the predominant view of romantic partnership is no longer about survival or wealth or… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
“There was at least one morning I was certain, though only for a few hours, that everything that could ever really happen to me… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share
