Quotes by : Lucy Grealy

I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty....

Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being....

Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate....

This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered....

None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of....

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being....