T.J. Wallace

“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

“How was she still awake, still standing, he wondered, and not for the first time considered that God's first mistake was starting with a man.”
― 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

“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