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.

It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other....

...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light.

I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun....

...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....

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