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Category: Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey

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

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Catherine Lacey

He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.

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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.

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Catherine Lacey

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

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Catherine Lacey

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 of him or her to unleash such a thing upon the world without leaving us a warranty or at the very least an instruction manual about how to manage, how to live with, how to understand this thing that can happen in a person against her will, by which I mean desire and the need it gnaws in us and the shadow it leaves when it’s gone.

Catherine Lacey

I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not worth it—that she’d be better off not living—and how was I supposed to live after that?

catherine-lacey, life, nobody-is-ever-missing, suicide

Catherine Lacey

I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.

catherine-lacey, dissociation, escape, self, the-answers

Catherine Lacey

Maybe misery begins everywhere.

catherine-lacey, misery, nobody-is-ever-missing

Catherine Lacey

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

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Catherine Lacey

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 life and the minute you really go missing is the minute you can no longer miss.

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Catherine Lacey

It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.

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Catherine Lacey

Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at all.

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