“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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“I got used to it, in a way, being this sack of skin full of problems, because having a body doesn't give… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I worried that what I had seen in the driver was something I'd seen in myself, that it took me to know… — Catherine Lacey Anxiety 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
“Though he felt a little guilt over disappearing, it wasn't even guilt, just sadness over not even wanting to call her.” — Catherine Lacey Apathy Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that the first thing you learn when traveling is that you don't exist--I didn't want to stop not existing.” — 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
“Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?” — Catherine Lacey Hell 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
“My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you… — Catherine Lacey Body 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
“I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“The feeling doesn’t always match the loss. Sometimes the bigger ones are easier to take, like ocean waves. Smaller, human losses, the… — Catherine Lacey Death 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 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
“I thought of all those billions of hearts beating out there, trying to find love or keep love going. All those people,… — Catherine Lacey Love Copy Share Image
“Walking through the inert office that night, the dark broken only by the flicker of a screen saver dancing alone, I thought… — Catherine Lacey Dark 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
“What more could anyone want than to try to change and be changed by someone?” — Catherine Lacey Change Copy Share Image
“I knew that this sort of love, technically, was just a neurotransmitter cocktail designed to make you feel invincible and infinite –… — Catherine Lacey Love Copy Share Image
“What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.” — Catherine Lacey Anxious 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
“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
“. . . waiting for . . . some kind of kindness or understanding to tell me, Self, it is all fine… — Catherine Lacey 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 Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
