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Catherine Lacey QUOTES

Catherine Lacey QUOTES

1 " 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 , The Answers

2 " Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness. "

― Catherine Lacey , The Answers

3 " 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 , The Answers

4 " 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 concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it. "

― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing

5 " Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity? "

― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing

6 " The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world. "

― Catherine Lacey , The Answers

7 " Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell? "

― Catherine Lacey , The Answers

8 " I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler and safer and less of a secret to themselves than I felt I was. "

― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing

9 " These men, these bitches of their boneless limbs – didn’t they know being a woman meant being at war? "

― Catherine Lacey , The Answers

10 " Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share. "

― Catherine Lacey , The Answers

11 " He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding. "

― Catherine Lacey , The Answers

12 " 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 never delete my own history, and I would always know exactly where I was and where I had been and I would never wake up not being who I was and it didn't matter how much or how little I thought I understood the mess of myself, because I would never, no matter what I did, be missing to myself and that was what I had wanted all this time, to go fully missing, but I would never be able to go fully missing—nobody is missing like that, no one has ever had that luxury and no one ever will. "

― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing

13 " I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real feeling—a feeling like, this is really sad, this is a sad place to be, a sad part of my life, maybe just a sad life. The woods were not particularly beautiful. I was not impressed by the trees. "

― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing

14 " I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love. "

― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing

15 " My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you put the things you don't have anywhere else to put, and I knew that the mind and body are connected, and that my bodily sensations were just messages from my mind, but I just wished there was a box or a drawer or a hole in the ground where I could put all this, all this mind and body stuff that I didn't know what else to do with. "

― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing

16 " I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world. "

― Catherine Lacey , The Answers

17 " Sex seemed like a thing that might only happen to me at random, outside my control, like the weather. "

― Catherine Lacey , The Answers

18 " Adults are taught to be anxious about not having enough sex while teenagers are shamed for wanting to have it all the time. "

― Catherine Lacey , The Answers

19 " That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day. "

― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing

20 " I tried to pick the burned ones from the bowl but I didn't get many of them because I didn't make much of an effort, and even though I was taking the burned ones out because they weren't edible, I ate them because, at the moment, I thought it would be better if everyone learned to consume their own mistakes. "

― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing