Lauren Slater Quotes
The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.
... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.
I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.
I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays like ribbons tangling in the tops of trees.
Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.
...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light.
...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.
It is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.