Alice Slater > Quotes

“I realised I needed depression. I needed something to help me make sense of it all.”
― Alice Slater, Let the Bad Times Roll

“And then in my thirties, I realised that everyone around me was burdened by grief, fear, pain, loneliness.”
― Alice Slater, Let the Bad Times Roll

“Well, yes, I realised I needed help making sense of my depression. I needed something to help me make sense of it all. Like I needed a life raft. I realised I needed something to cling to, a raft in the storm of my despair.”
― Alice Slater

“You can do whatever you like, be whoever you like, sleep with whoever you like. It doesn’t matter. You might be a different person next week, so what does it matter what you do today?”
― Alice Slater, Let the Bad Times Roll

“You can be anything you like, you know,” he replied. “There are no rules.”
― Alice Slater, Let the Bad Times Roll

“Death used to be a rare thing, something that happened to other people… Now, suddenly it was our parents who were fading… the adults we’d grown up with were slowing down, growing older, checking out.”
― Alice Slater, Let the Bad Times Roll