“I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“This was a feeling I had often, the sense of a subtext.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“These men, these bitches of their boneless limbs – didn’t they know being a woman meant being at war?” — Catherine Lacey Bitches Copy Share Image
“most dependable things in the world are not of any significant use to any substantial problems.” — Catherine Lacey Dependable Copy Share Image
“All your problems and all the answers to those problems exist in the boundaries of your body.” — Catherine Lacey Body Copy Share Image
“I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.” — Catherine Lacey 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… — Catherine Lacey Alone Copy Share Image
“And who is to say that loving a person isn’t just loving the idea of that person and not the actual person,” — Catherine Lacey Love Copy Share Image
“There was at least one morning I was certain, though only for a few hours, that everything that could ever really happen… — Catherine Lacey Really Happen Copy Share Image
“I was still new to this kind of adrenaline, the immediate release of anger instead of gnawing on it like overdue gum.” — Catherine Lacey Adrenaline Copy Share Image
“It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along.” — Catherine Lacey Love 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… — Catherine Lacey Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“I thought I'd make them understand, with rhetoric, with everything I had learned. I didn't realize I was ending it all, that… — Catherine Lacey Family Copy Share Image
“I began to think that he had just the right measure of unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life to be someone I could… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“I walked around the library and the library smelled like every library I had ever been in and Dewey decimals were on… — Catherine Lacey Writer Copy Share Image
“Being alone was what I wanted; being alone was not what I wanted. I didn’t want to want anything; I wanted to… — Catherine Lacey Life 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… — Catherine Lacey Life 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“There was no reason to leave. So I put my brain elsewhere and when it got dark I realized that all the… — Catherine Lacey Old men 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
“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
“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
“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
“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.” — 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
“Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?” — Catherine Lacey Alone 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… — Catherine Lacey 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… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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
“He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“ The most beautiful country in the world , the bloke said a few times, but I knew that lots of people… — Catherine Lacey Beautiful 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
“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
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