Paula Tyler

“He looked up. His pale hair looked white. He looked fourteen going on some age that never was. He looked as if he’d been sitting there and God had made the trees and rocks around him. He looked like his own reincarnation and then his own again.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“The boy reached and took the last egg from the bowl and cracked it and began to peel it. As he did so the blind man spoke. He said that on the contrary nothing had changed and all was different. The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“(The playwright Eugene O’Neill said, “The past is the present. It’s the future, too. We all try to lie out of that, but life won’t let us.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses