Howard Shulman > Quotes

“Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far better than anything I could ever have imagined.”
― Howard Shulman, Running from the Mirror

“So often when I despaired of ever finding answers, I wish I had understood that it is all so much simpler than I imagined—that there is hope amid despair and that family is anyone we truly touch, wherever they may be found.”
― Howard Shulman, Running from the Mirror

“Autobiography of a Face.”
― Howard Shulman, Running from the Mirror

“Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of void and chaos,” Lucy writes. “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.”
― Howard Shulman, Running from the Mirror

“Shopping was the perfect way to get rid of my small bills, so I doubled back to Fifth Avenue. In Saks I wandered the aisles, aware of the fashionably elegant women and their once-over dismissive appraisals of me. As I watched them browsing for Gucci bags and designer perfumes, their faces taut and unnatural, I pondered the irony that was apparently lost on them. Distorted by face-lifts and thereby robbed of character, their faces were every bit as disfigured as mine.”
― Howard Shulman, Running from the Mirror