“Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?” — Catherine Lacey Hell Copy Share Image
“He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.” — Catherine Lacey Cared Copy Share Image
“There are some things that only other people can do to you.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Not being gay felt like a failing, somehow, less evolved.” — Catherine Lacey Failing Copy Share Image
“I wondered for a moment if he was trying to get me to join a cult, but I realized it was just… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?” — Catherine Lacey Alone Copy Share Image
“He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was just my life, my strange and always stranger life, taking all the life out of me.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“And how sad it is that the last face someone makes at you is always the face you remember the most.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Only incredibly boring people have lives that go the way they expect.” — Catherine Lacey Boredom Copy Share Image
“Judas put his arm around me. I smiled and thought of the words unreality and despair .” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Though he felt a little guilt over disappearing, it wasn't even guilt, just sadness over not even wanting to call her.” — Catherine Lacey Apathy Copy Share Image
“Eventually she got out of bed, took a long shower, gargling and spitting mouthfuls of water, then screaming, just a little and… — Catherine Lacey Screaming Copy Share Image
“She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“ We have reached a point as a culture, where the predominant view of romantic partnership is no longer about survival or… — Catherine Lacey Culture Copy Share Image
“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 Death Copy Share Image
“I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“No child understands how well she knows her parents' faces, how much they tell her without speaking; that language is writ to… — Catherine Lacey Children Copy Share Image
“The late-afternoon light was thick and orange and she passed four different couples taking photos of themselves on the same cobblestoned block,… — Catherine Lacey Basic 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 Bothered Copy Share Image
“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 Different person Copy Share Image
“I knew that this sort of love, technically, was just a neurotransmitter cocktail designed to make you feel invincible and infinite –… — Catherine Lacey Love Copy Share Image
“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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“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 Body Copy Share Image
“She wished Felix and Jay were babies again, though they were never babies at the same time, and she wished she could… — Catherine Lacey Children Copy Share Image
“Walking through the inert office that night, the dark broken only by the flicker of a screen saver dancing alone, I thought… — Catherine Lacey Dark Copy Share Image
“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 Art Copy Share Image
“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 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… — Catherine Lacey Anxiety 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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“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 Bad advice Copy Share Image
“A tremendous amount of my brain was fitted with noticing new things out where nothing was familiar: buildings, types of cars, types… — Catherine Lacey Alarm clock Copy Share Image
“And I began to believe that you could exchange your life, send it back for a different model, and I knew that… — Catherine Lacey Change your life Copy Share Image
“I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here,… — Catherine Lacey Burden Copy Share Image
“He believed that all forms of government were spiritually bankrupt, that the only true way to follow Jesus was to be radically… — Catherine Lacey Government Copy Share Image
“information that my husband had archived—things I had done, he had done, words I had said, he had said, verbatim sentences he… — Catherine Lacey Marriage Copy Share Image
