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 accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.
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.
- 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 …
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.
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.
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…
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. …
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking differen… - Lucy Grealy
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking differen…
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