Quotes by : Lauren Slater

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 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.....