“ ...no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the quickest and take everything good with them, little burglars, those moments,… Catherine Lacey
“ 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 by each other for the rest of our lives. Catherine Lacey
“ Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person. Catherine Lacey
“ Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at all. Catherine Lacey
“ It was possible she might not have the right feeling after all, that she wasn't in love, wasn't in limerence, but was in some unnamed place alone. Catherine Lacey
“ I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here, always missing, forever a missing person to other people, I could never be missing to myself, I could ne… Catherine Lacey
“ I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I conclu… Catherine Lacey
“ I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me. Catherine Lacey
“ It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself. Catherine Lacey
“ You will never be missing to yourself and all you can do is delay, delay, delay and the delaying must be good enough for you and you must find a way to be fine with the delay because it is your whole… Catherine Lacey
“ And who is to say that loving a person isn’t just loving the idea of that person and not the actual person, all these incomprehensible clots of flesh with all their years gone by and vanished, all the… Catherine Lacey
“ Moments never stay, whether or not you ask them, they do not care, no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the quickest and… Catherine Lacey
“ Though I knew I had the potential to do this locked in me like a poisonous pet snake, I knew I didn't have the part of a person you must have to turn that potential kinetic, to be the kind of person w… Catherine Lacey
“ All your problems and all the answers to those problems exist in the boundaries of your body. Catherine Lacey
