T.J. Wallace

“He was of an age to think it childish, and an age to still want to do it.”
― Niall Williams, Time of the Child

“The noise of the street rose, many-voiced, in the music of congregation. Acquaintances were mutual and threw a wide ambit; besides neighbors and relations immediate, there were cousins, cousins of cousins, cousins of neighbors, cousins of neighbors' cousins, and their cousins, and their neighbors, all of which proved blood was a river without beginning or end.”
― Niall Williams, Time of the Child

“Men always want to keep things to themselves, Pearly Everlasting Haven! Don't think they don't. They don't want to tell you where to get a deal on cordwood or a five-pound hammer. They don't want you to know the secrets of roofing a shed. They'd rather watch you do it wrong so they can tell you how they knew you were doing it wrong all along," she said, rolling her eyes at the thought of it. "And don't you be falling for it, Pearly.”
― Tammy Armstrong, Pearly Everlasting

“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