“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“When she awakened in the a.m. into blind-slit shrinking nowhereness, it had all gone disorientingly quiet, and she would imagine for a… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“He must have felt a disturbance just beyond the boundless world his eyes perceived. Maybe like dogs we know when we are… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret—to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“You remember that saying, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life?' There's something awful about that saying.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what… — Garth Risk Hallberg Birds Copy Share Image
“But porca miseria , the things night can do to time. In place of hardwired sequence, it's more like everything all mixed up.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image