Jonathan David Walter > Quotes

“For he thought if he could still feel love after all he’d been through in his own life, even after a day like today, then maybe he could channel it into her. Because if he did, then maybe he could change the future—her future.”
― Jonathan David Walter, The Towpath: A Time Travel Suspense Thriller

“Something heated inside him then. It had been lingering deep, smoldering but growing amidst the hellish journey he’d suffered through to arrive at this very place, this very moment. Anger. It now licked at his stomach like an indignant flame.”
― Jonathan David Walter, The Towpath: A Time Travel Suspense Thriller

“As he descended, he watched a pair of turkey vultures dip and bank over the tree canopy, the invisible vectors on which they drifted only known to them and known in their blood for eons. He considered what he now knew in his blood, those
unsettling truths he’d carry with him into an unknown future, and probably to his grave.”
― Jonathan David Walter, The Towpath: A Time Travel Suspense Thriller

“He’d walked in the past, but the future was a shadowed hallway, a darkened vein off a main tunnel, an overgrown offshoot from a forested path.”
― Jonathan David Walter, The Towpath: A Time Travel Suspense Thriller

“She twirled the knife absently between her fingers, the muscles and tendons of her wrist moving like the inner workings of a clock, the spinning blade its macabre hour hand.”
― Jonathan David Walter, The Towpath: A Time Travel Suspense Thriller

“But there was never simply a moment longer, was there? Time was the silent killer that devoured all. It felt no sympathy as it ate the hours, minutes, and seconds. Then, it moved onto your dreams, hopes, and desires.”
― Jonathan David Walter, The Towpath: A Time Travel Suspense Thriller

“[Stalling]...the best plan when you didn’t have a plan at all. It was all about being patient, dragging things out if need be. A solution might emerge, a problem might correct itself, an intervening circumstance might change things, or the uncomfortable moment might simply pass you by if you waited it out long enough.”
― Jonathan David Walter, The Towpath: A Time Travel Suspense Thriller

“Her dreams might be ground up with them someday, but not before she seized the controls of the machine and ran it over the edge. For with her she carried the elixir of death. Her redemption for those who belonged. And she would see that they joined her when the big engine fell.”
― Jonathan David Walter, The Towpath: A Time Travel Suspense Thriller