Land of the Blind Quotes

“How much money do we pay for an education that will allow us to loop our necktie the same way each morning, to be given a regular parking spot to park our BMW every day, to buy a summer home so that even our vacations become routine? We are drilled in this unending sameness in high school, and only the insane and the inspired ever get past it.”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind: A Novel

“In fact, he talked about his painful and insidious cancer so plainly and without affect that to this day, I consider matter-of-factness a form of courage.”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind: A Novel

“We are all just loose piles of carbon and regret.”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind

“I could write for days about the disappointment of politics.”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind: A Novel

“I wondered if I even had a self. “I miss you,” I said aloud. Surprised at myself, I looked around to see if anyone had heard, but no one was n”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind: A Novel

“I remembered his saying that I really only lived in the perceptions of others, and suddenly it seemed painfully true. I couldn’t think of a time when I’d acted on my own, when I wasn’t driven by my grief”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind: A Novel

“buried by random events, ruined by confusion and grief.”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind: A Novel

“How can you not feel like a whole city of people waiting for it to finally be over, a whole city tending a parent’s slow death?”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind: A Novel

“Spokane is old, and it is beautiful like old things are, lit from within by nostalgia and hard times.”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind: A Novel

“The truth hurts only if you’re comforted by lies.”
― Jess Walter, Land of the Blind: A Novel