“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.” PainDespairDesperateTrappedSolace Author:Lucy Grealy
“Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.” FeelingsPainSufferingSimplePureEssentialsAnxietyIngredientsAnticipationFeeling Pain Book:Autobiography of a Face Source: Autobiography of a Face
“I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.” IfsWorldFeelsImportantFactsPainTermMy OwnAcceptingDespairUglyTreatedHierarchy Book:Autobiography of a Face Source: Autobiography of a Face
“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
