“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
“...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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?” — Catherine Lacey Alone 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
“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
“ 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
“There was at least one morning I was certain, though only for a few hours, that everything that could ever really happen… — 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
“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
“I walked around the library and the library smelled like every library I had ever been in and Dewey decimals were on… — Catherine Lacey 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
“I was still new to this kind of adrenaline, the immediate release of anger instead of gnawing on it like overdue gum.” — Catherine Lacey Anger Copy Share Image
“I wondered for a moment if he was trying to get me to join a cult, but I realized it was just… — 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
“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
“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
