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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

Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey God High Standards Idealistic Love The Answers Unattainable

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.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Hope The Answers

I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.

~ Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey Antisocial Catherine Lacey Don T Care Exhausting Faking It Friendless Friendliness Friends Friendship Isolation Loner Misanthrope No Friends Nobody Is Ever Missing Relationships

Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

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Catherine Lacey Alone Catherine Lacey Isolated Nobody Is Ever Missing Not Together Relationships

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.

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Catherine Lacey Alone Catherine Lacey Identity Isolation Mental Illness Nobody Is Ever Missing People

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

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Dreams Inexpressible Intangible Love Past Love Simile The Answers Unexplainable

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.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Dreams Life Reality Simile The Answers Years

I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here, always missing, forever a missing person to other people, I could never be missing to myself, I could never delete my own history, and I would always know exactly where I was and where I had been and I would never wake up not being who I was and it didn't matter how much or how little I thought I understood the mess of myself, because I would never, no matter what I did, be missing to myself and that was what I had wanted all this time, to go fully missing, but I would never be able to go fully missing—nobody is missing like that, no one has ever had that luxury and no one ever will.

~ Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey Burden Catherine Lacey Escape Escape Oneself History Identity Missing Nobody Is Ever Missing Running Away Stuck Title

I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real feeling—a feeling like, this is really sad, this is a sad place to be, a sad part of my life, maybe just a sad life. The woods were not particularly beautiful. I was not impressed by the trees.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Description Feelings Nature Nobody Is Ever Missing Reflection Sad Unimpressed

My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you put the things you don't have anywhere else to put, and I knew that the mind and body are connected, and that my bodily sensations were just messages from my mind, but I just wished there was a box or a drawer or a hole in the ground where I could put all this, all this mind and body stuff that I didn't know what else to do with.

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Catherine Lacey Body Catherine Lacey Escape Mind Nobody Is Ever Missing Simile

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.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Nonsense The Answers Uncomprehending World

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

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Out Of Control Passive Random Sex The Answers

But what had really happened? It was still unclear. Was it possible nothing of any significance had ever happened between us and our ending was just the sad process of realizing this?

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Catherine Lacey Breakup Catherine Lacey Relationship The Answers

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.

~ Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey Alone Catherine Lacey Doubt Feelings In Love Limerence Love Relationship The Answers

She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just be alive beside each other.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey In Love Longing Relationship The Answers

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.

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Catherine Lacey Avoidance Catherine Lacey Disappointed Left Unsaid Nobody Is Ever Missing Relationship Uncomfortable Unhealthy Relationship Unspoken

It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Description Dream Eerie Grotesque The Answers

And he'd said nothing or something that amounted to nothing, and I tongued this memory like a burn in my mouth until the bathwater cooled and shook me back into my body where my fingerprints were ruffled.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Descriptive Memory Nobody Is Ever Missing

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Childhood Memory Nobody Is Ever Missing Repressed Memories Simile

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

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Dissociation Escape Self The Answers

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?

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Life Nobody Is Ever Missing Suicide

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 Apart Catherine Lacey Comparison Nobody Is Ever Missing Outsiders Sad

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 Catherine Lacey Changed Ignorance Irreversible Point Of No Return The Answers

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 Catherine Lacey Identity Nobody Is Ever Missing

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.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Emotions Mental Illness Nobody Is Ever Missing Self Harm Upset

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.

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Humor Nobody Is Ever Missing Youth

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

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Nobody Is Ever Missing 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 feeling the way I felt right now and I had a way to kill that rabbit and the time to spend killing that rabbit then killing the rabbit was something I could imagine myself possibly doing or at least considering doing or being on the edge of doing. And smearing a husband with the blood wasn't such a far step after that if you had a desire to smear your husband with blood and smearing someone with blood was something I could imagine a situation calling for because there were at least a few people in this world that I wouldn't not like to see smeared with blood—one person being Werner for fucking my plans, for sending me back out into a life with my wildebeest, to figure out a way to live here and I didn't want to do that and I didn't know how to do that and I wasn't sure how I was going to do that—

~ Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Crimes Mental Illness Nobody Is Ever Missing Repetition Stream Of Consciousness Unhinged Unstable Violent

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 in other ways I was not here at all and anyone who looked closely could see that I had nothing to give, that I was a junk drawer, a collection of things that may or may not have had a use.

~ Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Disconnected Mental Illness Metaphor Nobody Is Ever Missing Nothing To Give Removed

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

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Closed Off Dead Isolated The Answers Unneeded Unreality Unwanted

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 person who can let their awful plow.

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Catherine Lacey Awful Catherine Lacey Nobody Is Ever Missing Potential

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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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Contained Longing Speechless The Answers

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.

~ Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Life Metaphor Missing Nobody Is Ever Missing

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

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Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Metaphor The Answers

Maybe misery begins everywhere.

~ Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Misery Nobody Is Ever Missing

She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.

~ Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey Nothing Something The Answers
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