Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?
Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me. - Lucy Grealy
Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.
- 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…
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 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. …
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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