The $60,000 Dog Quotes

“It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.”
― Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.”
― Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

“When I got the dogs they were puppies, and so were”
― Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.”
― Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

“...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.

... the window rosy with anemic November light.”
― Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

“I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.”
― Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.”
― Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

“...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.”
― Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals