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Catherine Lacey quotes: Maybe misery begins everywhere.

Maybe misery begins everywhere.

Catherine Lacey quotes: People in large quantities are terrible.

People in large quantities are terrible.

Catherine Lacey quotes: I read somewhere that the first thing you learn when traveling is that you don't exist--I didn't want to stop not existing.

I read somewhere that the first thing you learn when traveling is that you don't exist--I didn't want to stop not existing.

Catherine Lacey quotes: Judas put his arm around me. I smiled and thought of the words unreality and despair.

Judas put his arm around me. I smiled and thought of the words unreality and despair.

Catherine Lacey quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I was still new to this kind of adrenaline, the immediate release of anger instead of gnawing on it like overdue gum.

I was still new to this kind of adrenaline, the immediate release of anger instead of gnawing on it like overdue gum.

Catherine Lacey quotes: I thought I detected a bit of wonder in his voice, that he'd like to become part of a story, any story.

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 quotes: Anytime two people can look at each other and talk honestly, that is God.

Anytime two people can look at each other and talk honestly, that is God.

Catherine Lacey quotes: I began to think that he had just the right measure of unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life to be someone I could get along with.

I began to think that he had just the right measure of unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life to be someone I could get along with.

Catherine Lacey quotes: It was not that kind of leaving. I am not that kind of gone.

It was not that kind of leaving. I am not that kind of gone.

Catherine Lacey quotes: It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along.

It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along.

Catherine Lacey quotes: and I had come to this country where I could laugh, so gently, gently laugh at things that were actually not funny.

and I had come to this country where I could laugh, so gently, gently laugh at things that were actually not funny.

Catherine Lacey quotes: Days are a finite resource and it's best to protect the ones you have.

Days are a finite resource and it's best to protect the ones you have.

Catherine Lacey quotes: I walked toward the ocean, my brain somehow calm and empty, sick of itself, taking a sick day.

I walked toward the ocean, my brain somehow calm and empty, sick of itself, taking a sick day.

Catherine Lacey quotes: Please describe the feeling of love. Someone holding you by the wrist.

Please describe the feeling of love.
Someone holding you by the wrist.

Catherine Lacey quotes: He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.

He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.

Catherine Lacey quotes: Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

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

Catherine Lacey quotes: There's a certain kind of woman who will notice someone's terror and call it bravery.

There's a certain kind of woman who will notice someone's terror and call it bravery.

Catherine Lacey quotes: It felt possible--though I know this is absurd--that the use of my own body, the only thing I really owned, had somehow been repossessed.

It felt possible--though I know this is absurd--that the use of my own body, the only thing I really owned, had somehow been repossessed.

Catherine Lacey quotes: But there was no equation or series of questions that could turn this moment into an answer.

But there was no equation or series of questions that could turn this moment into an answer.

Catherine Lacey quotes: What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.

What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.

Catherine Lacey quotes: 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.

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 quotes: What more could anyone want than to try to change and be changed by someone?

What more could anyone want than to try to change and be changed by someone?

Catherine Lacey quotes: most dependable things in the world are not of any significant use to any substantial problems.

most dependable things in the world are not of any significant use to any substantial problems.

Catherine Lacey quotes: Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France.

Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France.

Catherine Lacey quotes: I'm not a person who needs people, but I am the kind of person who needs to be near people who don't need me.

I'm not a person who needs people, but I am the kind of person who needs to be near people who don't need me.

Catherine Lacey quotes: What is the point of love? To distract us.

What is the point of love? To distract us.

Catherine Lacey quotes: Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

Catherine Lacey quotes: Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them.

Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them.

Catherine Lacey quotes: We did not exist, the we we thought we'd always be.

We did not exist, the we we thought we'd always be.

Catherine Lacey quotes: some places are not good places to be a person and not a car and that was where I was.

some places are not good places to be a person and not a car and that was where I was.

Catherine Lacey quotes: What a danger it is to love, how it warps a person from the inside, changes all the locks and loses all the keys.

What a danger it is to love, how it warps a person from the inside, changes all the locks and loses all the keys.

Catherine Lacey quotes: No one likes to be unrecognizable. No one wants to be a stranger to someone who is not a stranger to them.

No one likes to be unrecognizable. No one wants to be a stranger to someone who is not a stranger to them.

Catherine Lacey quotes: I worried that what I had seen in the driver was something I'd seen in myself, that it took me to know me.

I worried that what I had seen in the driver was something I'd seen in myself, that it took me to know me.

Catherine Lacey quotes: [...] being occasionally destroyed is, I think, a necessary part of the human experience.

[...] being occasionally destroyed is, I think, a necessary part of the human experience.

Catherine Lacey quotes: I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.

I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.

Catherine Lacey quotes: Being alone was what I wanted; being alone was not what I wanted.

Being alone was what I wanted; being alone was not what I wanted.