25 Quotes by Lucy Grealy

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.

...as if foreknowledge of an event could somehow buffer you from its reverbrations.

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.

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.

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

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

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...