“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
“I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I barely managed to do the small talk—the what-do-you-do , the where-are-you-from , the what-neighborhood , the what-college , the despair of… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“And he'd said nothing or something that amounted to nothing, and I tongued this memory like a burn in my mouth until… — Catherine Lacey 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 Copy Share Image
“ Will your dad beat me up if I ask for your number? She wrote it down, smiling, feeling somehow significant and… — 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
“Sex seemed like a thing that might only happen to me at random, outside my control, like the weather.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“It was possible she might not have the right feeling after all, that she wasn't in love, wasn't in limerence, but was… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“You will never be missing to yourself and all you can do is delay, delay, delay and the delaying must be good… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“ I'm here , I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Though I knew I had the potential to do this locked in me like a poisonous pet snake, I knew I didn't… — 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 Image
“...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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?” — Catherine Lacey 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 wasn’t really… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“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 Image
