The Answers

Catherine Lacey

Top 10 Best Quotes

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

“Love is a compromise for only getting to be one person.”

“Perhaps someone would say I had no choice but to trust her and perhaps this is true, but also, and I understand this now, I love her and I loved her in that rare way, that non-possessive and accepting way that it seems people are always trying and failing to love someone...”

“I got used to it, in a way, being this sack of skin full of problems, because having a body doesn't give you the right to have one that works correctly. Having a body doesn't seem to give you any rights at all.”

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

“I barely managed to do the small talk—the what-do-you-do, the where-are-you-from, the what-neighborhood, the what-college, the despair of trying to explain oneself.”

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

“There was at least one morning I was certain, though only for a few hours, that everything that could ever really happen to me had already happened to me...I try not to be so certain anymore.”

“Only incredibly boring people have lives that go the way they expect.”

“It was possible she might not have the right feeling after all, that she wasn't in love, wasn't in limerence, but was in some unnamed place alone.”

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