Quotes by Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real feelinga feeling like, this is really sad, this is a sad place to be, a sad part of my ...”

“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 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.”

“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 min...”

“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 ...”

“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 con...”

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

“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.”

“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...”

“But we always avoided talking about these thingsdifficult thingsand I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.”

“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 r...”

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

“That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from himwe were both unable to get near the real life in life.”

“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...”

“I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not worth itthat she'd be better off not livingand how was I supposed to live af...”

“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...”

“None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.”

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

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

“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 sh...”