“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
