Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers…

“They are my wildflowers, pushing their way through the dirt and stretching up to the sun. My wildflowers have required me to be a…

— Heather Avis

“The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about…

— Neal Stephenson

“For a moment, he thought he sensed, beneath the visible world, some blind infrastructure connecting the two of them, or the three of them,…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Daddy just repeated the word, internship . As an alibi, it was a thing of beauty: its overtones of responsibility, of upward aspiration, were…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret—to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“He lights a cigarette off a candle. These death-tubes, these little crutches or fuses: useful for getting through all sorts of things you don't…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that this was the same Regan he'd known…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg