Paula Tyler

“But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen becomes the remembered? How are they separate? It is that which we have no way to show. It is that which is missing from our map and from the picture that it makes. And yet it is all we have.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

“What still haunts me is the raucous laughter with which the audience rewarded him, such pitiless laughter ripe with contempt for those who, like me, were weak and less blessed by Nature than the Blue Mood patrons in all their finery. Arrogant laughter born from vanity and ignorance is no less frightening than the shrieking and shouting of an enraged mob bearing torches and pitchforks.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Just four days later, April 9, seventy-six thousand exhausted American troops on the Bataan Peninsula, on the primary island of the Philippines, were forced to surrender to the Japanese. Grim news. Already the singular brutality of Hirohito’s army was well known. Much later we would learn that, during the 65-mile forced march to a Japanese prison camp, ten thousand of our troops were bayoneted, shot, or beheaded. Thousands more died of dehydration, starvation, and other preventable causes.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Mass murderers and thieves sleep as soundly as people who have done the right thing every day of their lives.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family