T.J. Wallace

“What possessed you? was a question common in Faha. Asked of children by mothers, and of husbands by wives, it occurred with enough frequency to attest to two things: in the chronicle of human endeavor there was no end to unaccountable behavior, but also, you were not entirely the captain of your own fate, something could come over you.”
― Niall Williams, Time of the Child

“In Faha, comment and commentary too were close cousins, and because for the bit of news the payment was the bit of news back, it was hard to tell who was doing the telling and who the listening. All of which made for a weave of words and the invisible stitchwork by which the parish was held together.”
― Niall Williams, Time of the Child

“Although invisible to Church and State, it was women who knitted the country together, and in Faha, on Sunday morning after mass, you could see the needles.”
― Niall Williams, Time of the Child

“There, in the narrow road with the morning coming over it, she held him in a look that needed no translation. It was Mind yourself, it was God bless, but above both of these it was Bring your father home, and Jude heard each, and more.”
― Niall Williams, Time of the Child