I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn't so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.


Autobiography of a Face (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994) - ISBN: 9780547524122

Lucy Grealy Quotes

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured....

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured....

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured....

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured....