“My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something t...” — Marie Rutkoski Quote

“My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.”

“I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.”

“She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.”

“The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.”

“This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.”