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Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Elisabeth Tova Bailey Biography

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey is an author. Her life and works are not widely documented, so specific information is limited.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey is an author. Her life and works are not widely documented, so specific information is limited.

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“It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession.”

Dentist Dentistry Tooth Snails

Book:The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Source: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

“Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.”

Silent Illness Good Health

Book:The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Source: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.”

Spirit Forgotten Illness Invisible Isolated Snail

Book:The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Source: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.”

Ifs Stills Whole Purpose Given Memories Leaving Illness Stealing Certainty Ease Each Day Shocking Starving Crumbs No Memory

Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.”

Giving Feels Littles Use Purpose Hours Numbers Minutes Losing My Friends Illness Abundance Little Time Hostage

Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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