The Answers Quotes

She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.

Catherine Lacey

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

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.

Catherine Lacey

I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.

Catherine Lacey

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

Catherine Lacey

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

Catherine Lacey

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

Catherine Lacey

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

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

Catherine Lacey

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

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

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