• 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: 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 (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt