Quotes by Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“Isnt everyone on the planet or at least everyone on the planet called me stuck between the two impulses of wanting to walk away like it never happened and wanting to be a good person in love, lovin...”

“I was thinking about stabbing myself in the facenot actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt.”

“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 thought I detected a bit of wonder in his voice, that he'd like to become part of a story, any story.”

“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 ...”

“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 ...”

“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 perso...”

“Moments never stay, whether or not you ask them, they do not care, no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the quickest ...”

“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 who...”

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

“Maybe misery begins everywhere.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Isn’t everyone on the planet or at least everyone on the planet called me stuck between the two impulses of wanting to walk away like it never happened and wanting to be a good person in love, lovi...”