“I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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
“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
“All your problems and all the answers to those problems exist in the boundaries of your body.” — Catherine Lacey Body 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“These men, these bitches of their boneless limbs – didn’t they know being a woman meant being at war?” — Catherine Lacey War 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 Time 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 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
“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
“most dependable things in the world are not of any significant use to any substantial problems.” — 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
“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a… — Catherine Lacey Love 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
“Losing Paul to time was far from the worst thing to happen to me, but the feeling doesn't always match the loss.… — Catherine Lacey Loss Copy Share Image
“That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him—we were both… — Catherine Lacey Apart Copy Share Image
“we want our spouses and partners to be everything to us: a lover, a best friend, a confidant, a nurturer, an intellectual… — Catherine Lacey Best friend Copy Share Image
“I didn't have a solid opinion on the possibility of anyone's having psychic abilities or a fluency in reading auras, nor did… — Catherine Lacey Faith 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 History Copy Share Image
