22 Quotes by Tim Johnston

It’s a poor carpenter blames his tools.

Long after everyone else has given up and gone home and gotten on with their lives, he would keep on believing because, without evidence, you could never kill his belief.

Leaving’s hard,” he said. “But it ain’t the hardest thing. Is it.

A man doesn’t really ever know himself. He thinks he does, but he doesn’t. There’s something in him that goes deeper than anything in his raising or his beliefs or his badge or whatever the hell he lives by. And once he reaches that place, well. Right and wrong are just words.

I believe a man is likely to surprise himself with what he believes.

And how will you know him, Grant? How will you recognize this bad man God has sent you?” “That’s the easy part,” said Grant, and he looked up from his hands and Billy saw his eyes in their sockets like small openings to some blue flame of the skull. “I will know this man because he will be the next man who attempts to hurt anyone I love.

An old aunt of mine told me one time, Simon, if you knew what growin’ old was you wouldn’t be in no rush to get there.

Because you could not talk to the world. You could not pray to it or love it or damn it to hell. With the world there could be no discussion, and with no discussion there could be no terms, and with no terms there could be no grace.

Now I wonder why a man lives so long he doesn’t even know the world he’s in anymore.