Snowblind Quotes

“I don’t understand the idea that people shouldn’t care about each other just because they’re strangers.  I think that kind of mindset is responsible for most of the world’s problems.”
― Rose Christo, Snowblind

“Maybe things don’t really happen for a reason,” Kenneth said.  “Or maybe they do.  But I think it doesn’t matter either way.  Because we can only experience those things as humans.  And because we’re humans, we’re going to think they mean one thing, even if they mean another.”
― Rose Christo, Snowblind

“On my reservation we have a saying. The past does not exist, except to the extent that you can remember it. And so it does not matter what you've done. Only what you do now.”
― Rose Christo, Snowblind

“I think--perhaps--I chipped away at part of the mystery that night. Kenneth was horribly scarred. Only a blind man could look at him without seeing those scars. My blindness, in turn, made me horribly selfish. And only a selfless man could look at me and see someone worth knowing.”
― Rose Christo, Snowblind

“All the problems in this world, he had told me, stem from the precept that we ought not to care about one another just because we are strangers.

Why should we not care about what happens to strangers?  Could you imagine the sort of world we might inhabit if we honestly and genuinely wanted to see one another living good, safe lives?  Can you even think what it might look like if we all cared about strangers as much as we cared about loved ones, so that the line between the two faded over time, and the precept—the crippling precept—disappeared altogether?”
― Rose Christo, Snowblind