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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/i-treated-despair-in-terms-of-hierarchy-if-there-was-a-more-important/)

[Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-grealy/)

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## More by Lucy Grealy

> [Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/does-something-which-exists-on-the-edge-have-no-true-relevance-to-the/)

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> [“When dealing with my mother, one always had to act in a delicate and prescribed way, though the exact rules of protocol seemed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/when-dealing-with-my-mother-one-always-had-to-act-in-a-delicate-and/)

[Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-grealy/)

> [The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/the-general-plot-of-life-is-sometimes-shaped-by-the-different-ways/)

[Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-grealy/)

> [ Through \[my friends\] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/through-my-friends-i-discovered-what-it-was-to-love-people-there-was/)

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> [Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/anxiety-and-anticipation-i-was-to-learn-are-the-essential-ingredients/)

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> [All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/all-narratives-even-the-confusing-are-implicitly-hopeful-they-speak/)

[Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/partly-i-was-honing-my-self-consciousness-into-a-torture-device-sharp/)

[Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/sometimes-the-briefest-moments-capture-us-force-us-to-take-them-in/)

[Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-grealy/)

> [“Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a ‘brave girl’ for not crying, a ‘good girl’ for not complaining, and soon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/reinforced-to-me-again-and-again-was-how-i-was-a-brave-girl-for-not/)

[Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-grealy/)

> [Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/animals-were-both-the-lives-i-took-care-of-and-the-lives-who-took/)

[Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-grealy/)

> [Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/beauty-as-defined-by-society-at-large-seemed-to-be-only-about-who-was/)

[Lucy Grealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/i-used-to-think-truth-was-eternal-that-once-i-knew-once-i-saw-it/)

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> [This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/this-singularity-of-meaning-i-was-my-face-i-was-ugliness-though/)

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> [Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/part-of-the-job-of-being-human-is-to-consistently-underestimate-our/)

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> [“The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was only October. Halloween…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-grealy/the-school-year-progressed-slowly-i-felt-as-if-i-had-been-in-the/)

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