23 Quotes by Lauren Slater

Why doesn’t passionate love last? how is it possible to see a person as beautiful on Monday, and 364 days later, on another Monday, to see that beauty as bland? surely the object of your affection could not have changed that much. she still has the same shaped eyes. her voice has always had that husky sound, but now it grates on you – she sounds like she needs an antibiotic.

Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.

In real time, darkness might last eight hours, but in psychological time, it can go for vast stretches.

I couldn’t reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad. She held herself stiff, a lacquered lady. I think because I couldn’t feel her, I couldn’t feel myself.

I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I’d always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.