“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
“All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.” WorldSpeakUnderstoodNarrativeHopefulConfusing Author:Lucy Grealy