“Love is a compromise for only getting to be one person.” — Catherine Lacey Compromise Copy Share Image
“This was a feeling I had often, the sense of a subtext.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Not being gay felt like a failing, somehow, less evolved.” — Catherine Lacey Failing Copy Share Image
“It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.” — Catherine Lacey Cared Copy Share Image
“She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“. . . overcast afternoons when it seemed possible the whole world had run out of things to say.” — Catherine Lacey 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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.” — 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
“Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at… — Catherine Lacey 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 Love 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
“It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“as she slept, her period came because bodies know nothing about timing, bodies, awful bodies. They put a Rorschach between your thighs… — Catherine Lacey Slept Period 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
“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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face—not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be… — Catherine Lacey 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 Avoidance Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I had just ruined it by reading Barthes at the wrong time. ( A Lover’s Discourse , Chandra said, was relationship poison .)” — Catherine Lacey Barthes 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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Looking at each other, something made sense that hadn't made sense before...I still don't know what it is or was about him,… — Catherine Lacey Indecisive Copy Share Image
“This wasn't a commodifiable realization, the kind of thing in college essays or inspirational books or the hardbound journals of gentle ladies.… — Catherine Lacey 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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“I wondered why my husband couldn't have just been all bad. Why couldn't he have been a cartoon villain, someone I could… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“There are so many ways to live and die, so many ways to tell that same story, over and over, but everyone… — Catherine Lacey Better way 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
“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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“The sheep stampeded away because sheep are smart enough not to trust anyone for anything, especially not people who sleep in and… — Catherine Lacey 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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“information that my husband had archived—things I had done, he had done, words I had said, he had said, verbatim sentences he… — Catherine Lacey Marriage Copy Share Image
“He believed that all forms of government were spiritually bankrupt, that the only true way to follow Jesus was to be radically… — Catherine Lacey Government 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 look back at this moment sometimes, the moment I accepted this job, and I have to wonder what kind of decision… — Catherine Lacey Decision making 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 Body language 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
“It was a relief for someone to explain what was wrong, what had happened. No one else, none of those doctors in… — Catherine Lacey Humor Copy Share Image
“A tremendous amount of my brain was fitted with noticing new things out where nothing was familiar: buildings, types of cars, types… — Catherine Lacey Alarm clock Copy Share Image
