The Blinds Quotes

“It all seemed so absurd to him: that a life comprising so many accumulated years could be interrupted with such indifferent swiftness. The fundamental fragility of it all.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“So strange don't you think? To ascend to such a high position in your lifetime and then be totally forgotten? I mean, who even remembers Schuyler Colfax? Or John C. Breckinridge?'
'The history boooks do.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“In [this] person, he had, bewilderingly, and for the first time ever, collided with another living soul whose continued existence on this earth he valued more than his own. Was that love? If so, then yes, they were in love.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“The thought of just how inadequate the body's natural defenses --skull, bone, brain-- were in the face of the advanced physics-- lead, gun-powder, momentum -- of invented death. It all seemed so absurd to him: that a life comprising so many accumulated years could be interrupted with such indifferent swiftness.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. And that's how we survive.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“No headstones for anyone, though. No official markers. Let each of the dead decide in the next life what name they choose to go by.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“There’s nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. And that’s how we survive.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“the only reward for the triumphant rat is a bigger, trickier maze.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“Damnatio Memorae: the Condemnation of Memory.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“That’s what happens when you wipe out a big chunk of a person’s memories: Fear breeds in the empty space that’s left behind.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“Here’s to the person you might have been, and to the person you have become. May they never meet in a dark alley.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“And fifty, he knows, is the moment in life when you stop looking forward and wondering what kind of person you might become, and start looking backward and wondering how you became the person you are.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

“[She] sees. She knows. She understands. About evil, or whatever you care to name it. It comes. It's relentless. It doesn't care if you forgot it. It searches, and it finds you, and it arrives on your doorstep one day, and it lights up a screen, it calls you by your real name, it smiles at you, it says hello, it eyes your son and promises to take him home.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds