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"Blindness is often perceived by the sighted as an either/or condition: one sees or does not see. But often a blind person experiences a series of veils: I stare at the world through smeared and broken windowpanes."

"Somewhere, in one of the letters of Horace, the Roman orator and poet, he says that the ears provide less nourishment to the human soul than the eyes. I suppose the assertion was true in the pagan world, the world before Bach."

"Only the blind can sense how foolish the sighted world's patterned responses to blindness really are."

"It's hard being a man. Have you ever thought of that?Anything that's bothering them, men think they have to hide it...They're a whole lot less free than women are when you think about it... It's like men and women are in two different countries! I'm not 'backing down' as you call it; I'm letting him into my country. I'm giving him space in a place where we can both be ourselves."...
"Kiss me Katya."
And she did.

"Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."...
"But why would you want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl."

"(She had a soft spot for goats.) She asked, "Were they doing that frolicking thing that goats do when they're happy?"
"Yes, a few of them were just barely beginning to fly," Chloe said, and it had been such a matter-of-fact description , so concrete and unsurprised, that Kate had experienced a jolt of pure pleasure."

"The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it."

It wasn't true that she hated children. At least, a few she liked ok. It was just she didn't like all children, as if they were uniform members of some micro phylum or something.