She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they…

“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

“Ed began explaining this Yo La Tengo thing, how he was listening to a record of theirs, on vinyl he emphasized, and he'd been…

— Catherine Lacey

“Though he felt a little guilt over disappearing, it wasn't even guilt, just sadness over not even wanting to call her.”

— Catherine Lacey

“I'd run out of options. That's how these things usually happen, how a person ends up placing all her last hopes on a stranger,…

— 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

“He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt,…

— Catherine Lacey

“I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.”

— Catherine Lacey

“This was a feeling I had often, the sense of a subtext.”

— Catherine Lacey

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

— Catherine Lacey

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

— Catherine Lacey

“I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.”

— Catherine Lacey

“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

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

— Catherine Lacey

“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

“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.”

— Catherine Lacey