{"author":"Catherine Lacey","author_id":"Catherine+Lacey","total_quotes":55,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["catherine-lacey","disconnected","mental-illness","metaphor","nobody-is-ever-missing","nothing-to-give","removed"],"id":8737,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"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.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["catherine-lacey","nonsense","the-answers","uncomprehending","world"],"id":22285,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["catherine-lacey","childhood","memory","nobody-is-ever-missing","repressed-memories","simile"],"id":27214,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"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.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["fiction","reading","stories"],"id":31450,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"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.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["holding-on","moments","nostalgia"],"id":41793,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"He believed that all forms of government were spiritually bankrupt, that the only true way to follow Jesus was to be radically self-reliant – off every grid. The energy grid was wasteful and corrupt, and the food grid devalued and destroyed the planet, and the culture at large was full of pain and deceit, and money itself was truly evil, and even the church (or, as he would say, the corporation that calls itself the church) was the most corrupt – contaminated by money and political greed and widespread land ownership. Worst of all, they called themselves holy.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["government"],"id":44172,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"All your problems and all the answers to those problems exist in the boundaries of your body.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["body","boundaries"],"id":48272,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"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.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["catherine-lacey","humor","nobody-is-ever-missing","youth"],"id":53005,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"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?","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["breakup","catherine-lacey","relationship","the-answers"],"id":66015,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["life","love","memory","time"],"id":97704,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":55,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}