Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney

Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it realize.

“Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person.

Are there any benefits to losing it all? I think about that a lot.

“People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one, wanting more, needing more, blind to the fact that they already had it all. I think sometimes it’s only when something gets taken from a person that they appreciate what they had.

Everyone is addicted to something because we all need a form of escapism, and alcohol is my drug of choice.

“Constantly living inside an imaginary world must make it difficult to tell truth and fiction apart sometimes.”

“Justice is only for those who can afford it,”

Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.

I love that something beautiful can come out of something so ugly.”

Life is beautiful and life is ugly and we have to learn to live with both sides of that same coin and see the light in the darkness. The world is Beautiful Ugly, relationships are Beautiful Ugly, love is Beautiful Ugly. Understanding that makes life easier to live with.”

“Nobody said it was easy, but love is always worth fighting for, isn’t it? I think maybe it’s the only thing worth fighting for.”

The island doesn’t judge you. It doesn’t care who you were, or who you think you are. It doesn’t make judgments based on how you look, what you believe in, what you do, or how much you think you are worth.