“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 the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.” PeopleArtDifferentEffortSeeingMy Friends Author:Lucy Grealy
“The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.” WayDifferentSometimesLife IsIgnoranceGenuineDifferent WaysPlot Author: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.” YearsDifferentFactsFeelingsPainFiveTragedyCancerUglyTreatedFive YearsComparisonMinorsFifteenFifteen YearsGreat Tragedy Author:Lucy Grealy
