“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that we can be the angriest with those we love most—what a curse, what a trick.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a… — Catherine Lacey 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“I thought of all those billions of hearts beating out there, trying to find love or keep love going. All those people,… — Catherine Lacey 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Perhaps someone would say I had no choice but to trust her and perhaps this is true, but also, and I understand… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a… — 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 Copy Share Image
“All she ever said to me about him was You can only love a person that much once in your life, and… — 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
“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
