“It seems to me that we can be the angriest with those we love most—what a curse, what a trick.” — Catherine Lacey Love 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 Catherine-lacey 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
“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 Time 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
“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
“And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way, that probably… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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
“He was looking at me like I was a very nice thing of his that wasn't working quite like it should, like… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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
“There are some things that only other people can do to you.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Sex seemed like a thing that might only happen to me at random, outside my control, like the weather.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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
“as she slept, her period came because bodies know nothing about timing, bodies, awful bodies. They put a Rorschach between your thighs… — Catherine Lacey 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
“It was possible she might not have the right feeling after all, that she wasn't in love, wasn't in limerence, but was… — Catherine Lacey Alone Copy Share Image
“All she ever said to me about him was You can only love a person that much once in your life, and… — Catherine Lacey Life Copy Share Image
“The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.” — Catherine Lacey Adults 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
“What a danger it is to love, how it warps a person from the inside, changes all the locks and loses all… — Catherine Lacey Danger Copy Share Image
“ But what else can that hypothetical actor-filmmaker do? How does he find meaningful human connection in a world of people who… — Catherine Lacey Connection Copy Share Image
