“When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Do you understand how rare it is to get a real chance to save someone?” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Pushing deeper into the farm, the blue land swollen under all those stars, he felt like a figure in a dream.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty?” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“And as he reached for William's leg, the way a small child will reach for its mother's, there welled up through a… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“He lights a cigarette off a candle. These death-tubes, these little crutches or fuses: useful for getting through all sorts of things… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“For a moment, he thought he sensed, beneath the visible world, some blind infrastructure connecting the two of them, or the three… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Then she spotted in the corner, glowing wonderfully, a Wurlitzer jukebox. ' Holy shit!' It was like being on a commuter train… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun.… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“The cushions of my friend's couch were some kind of rubberized velour, the windows were uncurtained, and at five a.m. the birds… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Daddy just repeated the word, internship . As an alibi, it was a thing of beauty: its overtones of responsibility, of upward… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that this was the same Regan… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“There were two options—call the foul or don't—and either way, he would lose, but there was a thrill here in this moment… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Maybe the siren was was a fire truck? Mercer couldn't see one anywhere, but like some bounding St. Bernard of the metaphysical,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Sitting in an armchair under yellow lamplight in front of a black window in an apartment whose only other light was the… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Once or twice, at night, he planted himself in front of the type-writer, trying to get back to the book he'd come… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Some young man has wronged you, hasn't he?' From a person who renounced on principle the possibility of transcendental morality, she thought,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Was she Minh Thuy, finally, or was she Jenny? But the time when there had been a meaningful difference between the two… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“He wanted his articles to be, not infinite exactly, but big enough to suggest infinitude.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Pulaski had never been one for the overwrought plot; any entanglement he could imagine between these two lines of evidence was willful… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“He's moving with such purpose that William is scared he might just speed right off the rooftop, like the roadrunner from the… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were glistening, but for some reason he couldn't reach out and touch her. It was like some gestures were so… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
