Ten of My Favourite Catherine Lacey Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Catherine Lacey, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Catherine Lacey you will find my Ten favourites of Catherine Lacey’s quotes.
Popular Quotes
“None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
“And this is the difference between me and the rest of the world: most people can let their feelings shift without a wildebeest smashing them up from the inside, but I, for some reason, cannot—and, still, I am more human than wildebeest so I’ll never be exempt from the human need for other people to be near, but because I am part wildebeest they can’t be too near, and I would like to apologize for that but I can’t apologize for that, I can’t apologize to everyone who deserves an apology for it, unless no one deserves anything, in which case, what a relief, because I can give everyone that nothing—I can give them nothing all day.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
“I think brains might be machines that turn information into feelings and feelings back into decisions and I’ve discovered that my machine has been put together in a strange way and it translates life in a strange way but I have no way to fix this—I’m not a brain-machine fixer, I’m just a haver of a brain, like anyone, and none of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
“Moments never stay, whether or not you ask them, they do not care, no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the quickest and take everything good with them, little burglars, those moments, those hours, those days you loved the most.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
“That’s the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
“There’s nothing better about living in a farm than living in a city. You can’t just go sit in a pretty landscape and bet on it changing you into a better person.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
“I’m not a person who needs people, but I am the kind of person who needs to be near people who don’t need me.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
“No one likes to be unrecognizable. No one wants to be a stranger to someone who is not a stranger to them.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
“Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
“[…] being occasionally destroyed is, I think, a necessary part of the human experience.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
10 Famous Quotes by Author Catherine Lacey
So there you have it my Ten favourite quotes by Catherine Lacey, please comment below and share your favourite quotes by the fantastic author Catherine Lacey. Furthermore, if you find any Authors not covered for there, top 10 quotes let me know and I will review their works and find some of their best quotes as has been done here for Catherine Lacey.
One Final Bonus – Catherine Lacey Quote
“Isn’t everyone on the planet or at least everyone on the planet called me stuck between the two impulses of wanting to walk away like it never happened and wanting to be a good person in love, loving, being loved, making sense, just fine? I want to be that person, part of a respectable people, but I also want nothing to do with being people, because to be people is to be breakable, to know that your breaking is coming, any day now and maybe not even any day but this day, this moment, right now a plane could fall out of the sky and crush you or the building you’re in could just crumble and kill you or kill the someone you love— and to love someone is to know that one day you’ll have to watch them break unless you do first and to love someone means you will certainly lose that love to something slow like boredom or festering hate or something fast like a car wreck or a freak accident or flesh-eating bacteria— and who knows where it came from, that flesh-eating bacteria, he was such a nice-looking fellow, it is such a shame— and your wildebeest, everyone’s wildebeest, just wants to get it over with, can’t bear the tension of walking around the world as if we’re always going to be walking around the world, because we’re not, because here comes a cancer, an illness a voice in your head that wants to jump out a window, a person with a gun, a freak accident, a wild wad of flesh-eating bacteria that will start with your face.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
