"..daughter carefully shuts her eyes whenever she wishes to go about the house, especially when she comes to a staircase, and that she is never happier or more at ease than when, by closing her eyelids, she relapses into her former state of total blindness." (Dillard 702)
-This quote is when the author is discussing a book she read about people who are blind and are given their sight through surgical procedures. The way that she talks about these people seems to make you think she envys these people. They are discovering something completely new and wonderful to them. Everything in the world is beautiful to them, every color different and new. She envys this because to her the world is just a blur, she wants that new discovery, that special love for something new. At the same time she realizes how much easier it would be to be able to avoid all that. Never have to deal with seeing, never have to watch yourself do something, watch yourself fail, be able to have an excuse for not loving some small thing the way that people like thoreau do.
"I stood on the grass with the lights in it, grass that was wholly fire, utterly focused and utterly dreamed. It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen..." (Dillard, 706)
-The author finally finds what shes looking for. Something so beautiful to her that it seems to be reflecting back, awakening her life. She feels "seen" for the first time, by herself, by the world. To her the lights she sees are something shes worked to see, theyre hard to see because its hard to let yourself completely believe in that beauty that is so encompassing.
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