170 Quotes by Catherine Lacey

No one likes to be unrecognizable. No one wants to be a stranger to someone who is not a stranger to them.

There is a certain kind of person who, when insulted, will assume you have something they need.

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 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?

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.

It seems to me that we can be the angriest with those we love most – what a curse, what a trick.

It was not that kind of leaving. I am not that kind of gone.

Being alone was what I wanted; being alone was not what I wanted.

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 ate them because, at the moment, I thought it would be better if everyone learned to consume their own mistakes.