“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
