Nina Goodheart
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Nina Goodheart
Others simply took the initiative, perhaps sensing that a person caught in the midst of a paradigm-shattering trauma is not the most capable delegator.
Making the most of our time
Often I find myself writing about an apparent subject that is concealing an almost opposite object. To write about hatred is to see love, vividly. Violence, intimacy. Divinity, humanity.
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book
Yet books were finite, podcasts were finite, films had last frames, everything has an end or if not an end then at least—sure, OK, fine—a deadline. Couldn’t we at least find an adequate phrase or image that didn’t feel like a cop-out, a feint, or a compromise? Couldn’t we reach an ending that didn’t lie about the end?
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius
... See moreMaybe I was just looking for something to be angry about, craving the way anger turns the contrast up on a day.
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book
There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.
‘There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy’: an extract from Gillian Rose’s ‘Love’s Work’ | London Review Bookshop
Symbolism is both hollow and solid, a crutch, yes, but what’s so wrong with needing help to get around?
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book
I thought I had been caring for him in the ways I knew how—the thousand domestic actions, the long walks, simply being there—yet if he hadn’t registered any of my actions as care, had my caring existed?
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book
What I want instead are blazing miracles. I want crystal clear visions, a burning bush, the voice of a goddamn god.
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book
Without God, what was a body? Just a place to wait.
— Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book