“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
