Catherine Lacey

“Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?”

— Catherine Lacey

“Maybe misery begins everywhere.”

— Catherine Lacey

“Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.”

— Catherine Lacey

“She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.”

— Catherine Lacey

“There are some things that only other people can do to you.”

— Catherine Lacey

“He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.”

— Catherine Lacey

“People in large quantities are terrible.”

— catherine lacey

“It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.”

— Catherine Lacey

“And how sad it is that the last face someone makes at you is always the face you remember the most.”

— Catherine Lacey

“Maybe it was just my life, my strange and always stranger life, taking all the life out of me.”

— Catherine Lacey

“He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.”

— Catherine Lacey

“Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?”

— Catherine Lacey

“I wondered for a moment if he was trying to get me to join a cult, but I realized it was just…

— Catherine Lacey

“Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.”

— Catherine Lacey

“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.”

— Catherine Lacey

“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

“I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not…

— Catherine Lacey

“No child understands how well she knows her parents' faces, how much they tell her without speaking; that language is writ to…

— Catherine Lacey

“The feeling doesn’t always match the loss. Sometimes the bigger ones are easier to take, like ocean waves. Smaller, human losses, the…

— Catherine Lacey

“To be hired as a girlfriend, sure, this seemed abnormal, but then again so many things seemed abnormal to me that I'd…

— Catherine Lacey

“ We have reached a point as a culture, where the predominant view of romantic partnership is no longer about survival or…

— Catherine Lacey

“ But what else can that hypothetical actor-filmmaker do? How does he find meaningful human connection in a world of people who…

— Catherine Lacey

“Eventually she got out of bed, took a long shower, gargling and spitting mouthfuls of water, then screaming, just a little and…

— Catherine Lacey

“She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting…

— Catherine Lacey

“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at…

— Catherine Lacey

“Walking through the inert office that night, the dark broken only by the flicker of a screen saver dancing alone, I thought…

— Catherine Lacey

“What I'd said wasn't any kind of honesty, but Simon had perfected the art of seeing what he wanted to see, because…

— Catherine Lacey

“She wished Felix and Jay were babies again, though they were never babies at the same time, and she wished she could…

— Catherine Lacey

“My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you…

— Catherine Lacey

“And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way, that probably…

— Catherine Lacey

“I knew that this sort of love, technically, was just a neurotransmitter cocktail designed to make you feel invincible and infinite –…

— Catherine Lacey

“It seemed that my identity had necessarily split, that I'd turned into a different person. I could look at her now and…

— Catherine Lacey

“He wouldn't tell me that I always have two options— You can choose how you feel or you you can let your…

— Catherine Lacey

“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

“Isn’t everyone on the planet or at least everyone on the planet called me stuck between the two impulses of wanting to…

— Catherine Lacey

“And I began to believe that you could exchange your life, send it back for a different model, and I knew that…

— Catherine Lacey

“ You know, I've never really known what to do. I just keep making these decisions or not, making right and wrong…

— Catherine Lacey

“A tremendous amount of my brain was fitted with noticing new things out where nothing was familiar: buildings, types of cars, types…

— Catherine Lacey

“It was a relief for someone to explain what was wrong, what had happened. No one else, none of those doctors in…

— Catherine Lacey

“I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here,…

— Catherine Lacey