Book: Ugly

At least nature did not need surgery in order to be beautiful. Nature was just beautiful, that's all.

I don't want to remain a freak for the rest of my life. I want me to have big eyes and full lips, I want everyone to look at me and gasp. So that everyone who sees me immediately thinks: Who

But it's a lie, Tally. All your life you have seen beautiful faces. Your parents, your teachers - everyone over sixteen. But you weren't born expecting to be surrounded by handsome men all the time. The idea has been drilled into your head that everything else is ugliness. You were programmed that way.

There is a certain kind of beauty - attractiveness that is noticeable to everyone. Big eyes; lips are plump, like a child’s; smooth, clean skin; correct facial features and a thousand other little things. Subconsciously, people always look for these marks in others. No one can help but notice them, no matter where they grow up, no matter how they were brought up. Over millions of years of evolution, this has become an integral part of the human brain.

At least something in her life changed: she became harder and harder...

To be a bird - it's probably also hard work. You imagine: the whole day wings to flap!

In childhood and adolescence, we all make vows. All you care about, everything seems important and main, but it has to grow, as of clothing, which becomes small.

Big cities are like these stones. May seem durable, but it is necessary to stir them and they will fall.

I can't imagine anything worse than when you are told to have fun.

Every civilization has its weaknesses. There is always something we depend. And if it's taking away from the whole way of life will remain only a story for a history lesson.

Ninety percent of the world's population live brainwashed, and only a few people worldwide know what is this washing

If only people were smarter, if they were advanced enough to treat everyone equally, even if someone looks different.

But the point is not how to live and what to eat. The fact is, to become what I want to be. And not what I should be according to some galoot surgical consultation.