I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
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
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…
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.
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for. - 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… - 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…
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 …
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…
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
Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.
Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people. - Lucy Grealy
Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.
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