“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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.” — 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 Copy Share Image
“I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.” — Catherine Lacey 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 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 Copy Share Image
“I'd run out of options. That's how these things usually happen, how a person ends up placing all her last hopes on… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Ed began explaining this Yo La Tengo thing, how he was listening to a record of theirs, on vinyl he emphasized, and… — 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
“Sometimes it seems all I have are questions, that I will ask the same ones all my life. I'm not sure if… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“But what had really happened? It was still unclear. Was it possible nothing of any significance had ever happened between us and… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were.” — Catherine Lacey 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 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
“Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“. . . overcast afternoons when it seemed possible the whole world had run out of things to say.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“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 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
