“I find that nothing is quite as I remember; in my absence, the world has changed.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Absence Copy Share Image
“Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Doctor Copy Share Image
“THERE IS A CERTAIN depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation; the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Isolation Copy Share Image
“It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“The crucial first step to survival in all organisms is habitat selection. If you get to the right place, everything else is… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Biology Copy Share Image
“The crucial first step to survival in all organisms is habitat selection. If you get to the right place, everything else is… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Biology Copy Share Image
“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail…the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“Was this truly a door that I would someday open and walk through, as if walking out into the world were an… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Health Copy Share Image
“The life of a snail is as full of tasty food, comfortable beds of sorts, and a mix of pleasant and not-so-pleasant… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Life Copy Share Image
“The snail had been a true mentor; its tiny existence had sustained me. Late one winter night I wrote in my journal:… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Life Copy Share Image
“My bed was an island within the desolate sea of my room. Yet I knew that there were other people homebound from… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Around the world Copy Share Image
“Survival often depends on a specific focus: A relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility. Or something… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Faith Copy Share Image
“There was no woodsy fragrance blowing through my room, and the snail, especially while it lived in the pot of violets, must… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Certainty Copy Share Image
“The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Life Copy Share Image
“In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Mammals Copy Share Image
“Millions of centuries of voyaging via animals, water, and wind brought my snail's family to colonize the woods near where I was… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Family Copy Share Image
“I wrote to one of my doctors: I could never have guessed what would get me through this past year - a… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Life Copy Share Image
“We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Abundance Copy Share Image
“There is a certain depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation: the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Death Copy Share Image
“As I glided further into the dusty mollusk volumes, I discovered that gastropods - which account for 80 percent of all mollusks… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Bacteria Copy Share Image
“I liked the sound of the word 'snail' every time I said it; the word was as small and simple as the… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“As the snail's world grew more familiar, my own human world became less so; my species was so large, so rushed, and… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
