Steve Middendorf

“Emaciate and blinking and with the wind among her rags she looked like something replevied by grim miracle from the ground and sent with tattered windings and halt corporeality into the agony of sunlight.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

“In the morning he heard the tinker’s shoddy carillon long through the woods and he rose and stumbled to the door to see what new evil this might be.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

“The man standing said that what argued for one case argued for all and that in any event our graves make no claims outside of their own simple coordinates and no advice as to how to arrive there but only the assurance that arrive we shall.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“In the store the old men gathered, occupying for endless hours the creaking milkcases, speaking slowly and with conviction upon matters of profound inconsequence,”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper