“Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“He’d wanted it to be about losing, about the things we’re born into loving and then lose.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty?” — Garth Risk Hallberg Certainty Copy Share Image
“Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire 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 City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Allen-ginsberg 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 City-on-fire 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 Cigarettes Copy Share Image
“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire 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
“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 Alternate-universe 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 City-on-fire 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 Beauty 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 City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire 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 Another life 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 City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“A funny thing happened post-diagnosis. They put him on drugs, things went up and down, but he lived. He lived. It was… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire 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 City-on-fire 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 City-on-fire 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 City-on-fire 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 Best self Copy Share Image
“When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-” — Garth Risk Hallberg Art 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 Anxious Copy Share Image
