Quotes from Catherine Lacey, The Answers

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

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.

The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

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

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.

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.