Blind Site Quotes

“There are over one hundred thousand miles of myelin-sheathed neurons in the brain, one hundred trillion synaptic connections. When Teddy understands Caitlyn’s words, his alpha motor neurons—the fastest neurons in a human body—fire in rapid succession, tearing him back across fifteen hundred miles of America. Across the great swaths of violet-bloom desert he had wandered in his dreams. Over the Salt Lake. Through Ogden, its brown brick buildings and suburban sprawls. Past winding freeways where cars and trucks ply the pavement like the electrical signals in his mind, from the axon tips, across the synaptic gap, to the dendrites of the next neuron, a dance from node to node, state to state, memory to memory.”
― Andrew Van Wey, Blind Site: A Mind-Bending Thriller

“Michaels has stood on both sides of this one-way mirror. There, in the interview room, listening to subjects. And here, on this side, conferring with scientists. Dead now, so many dead. But not her. Temporary lights dot the walls, cold orbs taped to concrete. Dim illumination, but it doesn’t matter to the woman on the gurney.”
― Andrew Van Wey, Blind Site: A Mind-Bending Thriller

“Inside now, combat glide, smooth and fast where the kitchen staff clears a path. Kevlar and carbines rattling past boiling pots. Cuban hip-hop from a wireless speaker. For a few curious seconds, the beat matches the pounding boots.”
― Andrew Van Wey, Blind Site: A Mind-Bending Thriller

“Caitlyn feels the shift as the tablet leaves the tray table and an inflight phone is lifted from its receiver. The airplane buzzes with voices, motion, excitement. Beyond the black curtain that has come to separate her from colors and shapes, only a few hundred miles away and closing, there is a monster. And beyond the curtain there is also a promise. Justice, moving swiftly, turning her sword and blind eyes upon Boston, where a man of shadows plies the night.”
― Andrew Van Wey, Blind Site: A Mind-Bending Thriller

“These are his tools: his eyes and his mind. He sucks in the world in spastic strokes of his pen. This is his mantra when it comes to his writing: size, shape, distinguishing characteristics. Size: three hundred feet of old cobbled road. Shape: lumpy stones and ivy-draped brick. Distinguishing characteristics: these warm honey lamps.”
― Andrew Van Wey, Blind Site: A Mind-Bending Thriller

“The officer unlocks a chain-link gate and leads Brad into the heart of the lot. An abattoir of metal, a cemetery for the American dream. Moldering jalopies share space with low riders and Teslas. Trump-stickered pickups rust beside Priuses decorated with Bernie for President. In this way, the impound is more egalitarian than the community it serves.”
― Andrew Van Wey, Blind Site: A Mind-Bending Thriller

“Carruthers doesn’t doubt Kembo’s recollection. The mind is a malleable thing, an organ constantly reconstructing reality.”
― Andrew Van Wey, Blind Site: A Mind-Bending Thriller

“Michaels takes a step back, takes in the woman’s remaining eye. Within it dwells lost photons, the last flashes of forty-eight hours ago. If only he could harvest that dead light, wind time backward, and look out at whoever did this. To tell them, Justice is coming.”
― Andrew Van Wey, Blind Site: A Mind-Bending Thriller