Quotes from Blind Lake — Robert Charles Wilson
born 1953 Canada
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Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
Blind Lake (2003)
This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.
Blind Lake (2003)
If you understood the facts they needed no embroidery: all the wonder was already there, the more spellbinding because it was true.
Blind Lake (2003)
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
Blind Lake (2003)
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
Blind Lake (2003)
Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.
Blind Lake (2003)
His heart was in the right place. He wanted a religion that could plausibly comfort widows and orphans without committing them to patriarchy, intolerance, fundamentalism, or weird dietary laws. He wanted a religion that wasn’t in a perpetual fistfight with modern cosmology.
Blind Lake (2003)
We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge—to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.
Blind Lake (2003)