“ Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at that framed memory hanging in myself and it meant I was here, back in this sick city, but in… Catherine Lacey
“ Someone said once that they'd never heard of a crime they couldn't imagine committing, and I realized then that if I had a daughter and she had a rabbit and that rabbit was alone with me and I was fee… Catherine Lacey
“ Isn’t everyone on the planet or at least everyone on the planet called me stuck between the two impulses of wanting to walk away like it never happened and wanting to be a good person in love, loving,… Catherine Lacey
“ I was beginning to realize that what I wanted was the noise of people living near me, but not near enough to cause any inaudible noises to show up because I knew that those sorts of noises often shift… Catherine Lacey
“ 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
“ I wondered for a moment if he was trying to get me to join a cult, but I realized it was just his youth talking, not a dogma. Catherine Lacey
“ I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face—not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt. Catherine Lacey
“ He believed that all forms of government were spiritually bankrupt, that the only true way to follow Jesus was to be radically self-reliant – off every grid. The energy grid was wasteful and corrupt,… Catherine Lacey
“ Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them. Catherine Lacey
“ I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself. Catherine Lacey
“ He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing. Catherine Lacey
“ That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him—we were both unable to get near the real life in life. Catherine Lacey
“ Let me say that whoever invented wanting, whoever came up with desire, whoever had the first one and let us all catch it like a hot-pink plague, I would like to tell that person that it wasn't fair of… Catherine Lacey
“ I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not worth it—that she'd be better off not living—and how was I supposed to live aft… Catherine Lacey
“ Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to. Catherine Lacey
“ And he'd said nothing or something that amounted to nothing, and I tongued this memory like a burn in my mouth until the bathwater cooled and shook me back into my body where my fingerprints were ruff… Catherine Lacey
“ It's disappointing enough to know that the people we love will sometimes lie, but it is almost worse when we remember that strangers do this too, and this is why it is best not to admit our lies to st… Catherine Lacey
“ The feeling doesn’t always match the loss. Sometimes the bigger ones are easier to take, like ocean waves. Smaller, human losses, the ones that carry a sense of fault, a choice, a wrong turn – they ha… Catherine Lacey
“ She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just be alive beside each other. Catherine Lacey
