“It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“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
“I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“I walked toward the ocean, my brain somehow calm and empty, sick of itself, taking a sick day.” — Catherine Lacey 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 Before Copy Share Image
“What more could anyone want than to try to change and be changed by someone?” — Catherine Lacey Change Copy Share Image
“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.” — 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
“I thought I detected a bit of wonder in his voice, that he'd like to become part of a story, any story.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“And he'd said nothing or something that amounted to nothing, and I tongued this memory like a burn in my mouth until… — Catherine Lacey 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 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 Breakup 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 Hearts 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
“I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone… — Catherine Lacey Calling 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
“ 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
“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 found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to… — Catherine Lacey Antisocial 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
“Perhaps someone would say I had no choice but to trust her and perhaps this is true, but also, and I understand… — Catherine Lacey Love Copy Share Image
“. . . waiting for . . . some kind of kindness or understanding to tell me, Self, it is all fine… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“It seemed her whole life had been a series of waves, that everything and everyone she'd ever known had come at her… — Catherine Lacey Heart Copy Share Image
“ Celebrity obsession is often emotionally and logistically shackling to the country’s most prominent and successful people, and this ultimately hinders those… — Catherine Lacey Celebrity Copy Share Image
“I think brains might be machines that turn information into feelings and feelings back into decisions and I've discovered that my machine… — Catherine Lacey Computers 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
“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
“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
“It seems to me that we can be the angriest with those we love most—what a curse, what a trick.” — Catherine Lacey Curse 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
“What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.” — Catherine Lacey Anxious Copy Share Image
“I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Adults are taught to be anxious about not having enough sex while teenagers are shamed for wanting to have it all the… — Catherine Lacey Sex Copy Share Image
“I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.” — Catherine Lacey Blame 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
