“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.” DentistDentistryToothSnails 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.” SilentIllnessGood 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.” SpiritForgottenIllnessInvisibleIsolatedSnail 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.” IfsStillsWholePurposeGivenMemoriesLeavingIllnessStealingCertaintyEaseEach DayShockingStarvingCrumbsNo 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.” GivingFeelsLittlesUsePurposeHoursNumbersMinutesLosingMy FriendsIllnessAbundanceLittle TimeHostage Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey