Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. - Lucy Grealy
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.
- Lucy Grealy
While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking … - Lucy Grealy
While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking …
Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else. - Lucy Grealy
Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.
Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple. - Lucy Grealy
I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to acce… - Lucy Grealy
I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to acce…
This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launc… - Lucy Grealy
This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launc…
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for. - Lucy Grealy
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them. - Lucy Grealy
Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.
I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. … - Lucy Grealy
I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. …
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