“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
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“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
“I was still new to this kind of adrenaline, the immediate release of anger instead of gnawing on it like overdue gum.” — Catherine Lacey Adrenaline 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
“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
“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
“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
“No child understands how well she knows her parents' faces, how much they tell her without speaking; that language is writ to… — Catherine Lacey Children 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
“To be hired as a girlfriend, sure, this seemed abnormal, but then again so many things seemed abnormal to me that I'd… — Catherine Lacey Long ago Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so… — Catherine Lacey Alone 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
“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
“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
“The sheep stampeded away because sheep are smart enough not to trust anyone for anything, especially not people who sleep in and… — 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
“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 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
“. . . waiting for . . . some kind of kindness or understanding to tell me, Self, it is all fine… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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
“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
“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
“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 couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.” — 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
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“What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.” — Catherine Lacey Anxious Copy Share Image
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“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 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 Copy Share Image
“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
“There was at least one morning I was certain, though only for a few hours, that everything that could ever really happen… — 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 Indecisive 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
“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'm here , I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that… — Catherine Lacey Catherine-lacey 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 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
