Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any — Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any — Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any — Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any — Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any — Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
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Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.

— Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
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