This memoir was filled with insightful moments and quotes that painted a picture of Lucy’s rollercoaster emotions. “Part of a job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people, and for the specific job of being a twelve-year-old with a younger sister, cruelty is de rigueur.” (Grealy, Page 65) Lucy did not only live the effects of cruelty in the outside world she also faced it in her household by her siblings. “Despite my knowing that people dies, it never occurred to me that I might personally be implicated.” (Grealy, Page 67) She never quite understood that only five percent survive this type of cancer. In her mind she knew that animals died but wasn’t certain if the same will happen to her. “I had no sense of
