Basic things Quote 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…

— Lucy Grealy

“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

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

— 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…

— 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.

— Lucy Grealy

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Lucy Grealy

Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.

— Lucy Grealy

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

— 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 launching pad…

— Lucy Grealy