Quotes by : Lauren Slater

But then, not long after, in another article, Loftus writes, "We live in a strange and precarious time....

They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue,....

... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.

...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.

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.

I looked up "skin" in the encyclopedia and confirmed that, sure enough, it is the human body's largest....

Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.....

Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus's findings....

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.....