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Jenny Offill
“When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.”
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

Catherine Lacey
“[...] being occasionally destroyed is, I think, a necessary part of the human experience.”
Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

Catherine Lacey
“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

Catherine Lacey
“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, Nobody Is Ever Missing

Catherine Lacey
“Love is a compromise for only getting to be one person.”
Catherine Lacey, The Answers

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