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“Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.”

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Lucy Grealy

Lucy Grealy was an American poet known for her unique writing style and profound reflections on life experiences. Her work often focuses on personal experiences, particularly her struggle with cancer and themes of body image and identity. more

“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.”

Sometimes Faces Lifts Ugliness Unbearable Pads Singularity Vanishing Launching Vanishing Point

Book:Autobiography of a Face

Source: Autobiography of a Face

“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.”

Lying Night Turns Brain Rate Wave Block Awake Sand Imitation Mud Pebbles Rubies Awake At Night

Book:THE HORSE'S MOUTH

Source: THE HORSE'S MOUTH

“The doctor of the future will be oneself.”

Doctors Oneself

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“I don’t care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries.”

Ifs Long Care Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.”

Giving Firsts Doe Feelings Night Fighting Winning Loses Birth Battle Labor All Night Inconvenient

Book:Thirteen: A Novel

Source: Thirteen: A Novel

“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”

May Said Seems Used Ordinary Aunt Handmaids Handmaids Tale

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.”

World Force Love Is Inspiring Eternal Cruelty Only Love

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.”

Ifs Want Trying Persons Problem Lying Argument Philosophical Solve

Author:E. Lockhart

“I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.”

Eye Running Jesus Pieces Cry Toys Zombie Blake Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

Book:The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.”

Beautiful Existence Torment Beautiful Women

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

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