Quote by Lucy Grealy Download Open image ““I boiled every equation down to these simple terms: was I lovable or was I ugly?”” — Lucy Grealy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
“The truth is, being ugly isn't the thrill you'd think, but it can be an oportunity for something better than I ever imagined. The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It was ugly, but then ugly objects as a general rule are the bravest.” — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.” — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“But what if the beautiful things don't mean anything? What if they're just superficial? What if the ugly stuff is stronger?” — K.L. Denman Copy Share Image
“I wanted to know how ugly I could get, how ruined and ugly and spoiled, before they stopped trying to fuck me. I didn't… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“In practice I think it’s easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who’ve made beautiful things seem to have… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“There is no pretty, or ugly... There is only what the individual mind perceives~” — Aaron Sell Copy Share Image
Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
“When dealing with my mother, one always had to act in a delicate and prescribed way, though the exact rules of protocol seemed to… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
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… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
“Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a ‘brave girl’ for not crying, a ‘good girl’ for not complaining, and soon… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
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