Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life With Animals Quotes
... 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.
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.
