Truth & Beauty is such a beautiful book about growing in friendship and growing apart from friendship. As much as you always will still love a person, there is still going to come a time when being around that person isn't a priority. This book shows how the friendship between the author and her best friend Lucy, and fellow writer, loved each other but they still eventually grew apart. Lives go in different directions, and you can't be someone's everything. It showed that as much as Lucy was loved she still couldn't be saved, because her head was such an ugly place to be and she had to live with the childhood scars of being who she was and the constant change of her face. She was special because she was different, but that was also her curse. Many women can identify with the insecurity that Lucy was faced with, with the feeling of being unloved; lonely and worst of all ugly. Lucy could never let that go and eventually that had destroyed her.