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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 obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

~ Lucy Grealy

Lucy Grealy Enlightenment Knowledge Memory Truth

Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?

~ Lucy Grealy

Lucy Grealy Art Poetry

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 from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.

~ Lucy Grealy

Lucy Grealy Face Life Pain Singularity Ugliness Ugly Wrong

At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets.

~ Lucy Grealy

Lucy Grealy Despair Desperate Pain Solace Trapped

Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.

~ Lucy Grealy

Lucy Grealy Life Strength Survival

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

~ Lucy Grealy

Lucy Grealy Beauty Isolation Suffering Ugly

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

~ Lucy Grealy

Lucy Grealy Autobiography Of A Face Body
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