Here Lies the Reader

“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

“You can be anything you like, you know,” he replied. “There are no rules.”
― 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

“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