"I spent five years of my life being……" — 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 different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison."
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17 Quotes by Lucy Grealy
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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without…
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I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever,…
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While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as…
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I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
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All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
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Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being…
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Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of…
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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty…
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Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...
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Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.
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