“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.”
— Robert Charles Wilson, book Blind Lake
Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 2 (p. 23)
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