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Lucy Grealy quotes: Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.

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

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

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lucy Grealy quotes: 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.

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.

Lucy Grealy quotes: None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.

None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.

Lucy Grealy quotes: I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

Lucy Grealy quotes: The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

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

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

Lucy Grealy quotes: And knew without doubt that I was living in a story Kafka would have been proud to write.

And knew without doubt that I was living in a story Kafka would have been proud to write.