“Love is a compromise for only getting to be one person.” — Catherine Lacey Compromise Copy Share Image
“It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.” — 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 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
“He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?” — Catherine Lacey Alone 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
“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
“I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey Copy Share Image
“. . . overcast afternoons when it seemed possible the whole world had run out of things to say.” — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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
“ 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
“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
“I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone… — Catherine Lacey 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 Actor 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
“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
“She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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
“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 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
“You will never be missing to yourself and all you can do is delay, delay, delay and the delaying must be good… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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
“I walked around the library and the library smelled like every library I had ever been in and Dewey decimals were on… — Catherine Lacey Writer Copy Share Image
“There are so many ways to live and die, so many ways to tell that same story, over and over, but everyone… — Catherine Lacey Better way 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“These men, these bitches of their boneless limbs – didn’t they know being a woman meant being at war?” — 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
“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
“most dependable things in the world are not of any significant use to any substantial problems.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
