“Actual artists are like mythological creatures,' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Art 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 City-on-fire 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 Art 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
“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 City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley,… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire 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 Children 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 Awful Copy Share Image
“There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire 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
“He was a priest now, pagan, half-naked in the night, performing obscure rites of interment. Or he was the lead player in… — 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 Being-watched Copy Share Image
“I keep having this fantasy about some wide river or channel I'm on the bank of. I can look up, and on… — Garth Risk Hallberg Alternate-universe Copy Share Image
“For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgivable. She knew, she said,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Cheating Copy Share Image
“It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Alone Copy Share Image
“One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why?” — Garth Risk Hallberg Breakup Copy Share Image
“The universe of his own feelings keeps crowding everyone else's out. It is a constant struggle to see other people as people,… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New… — Garth Risk Hallberg City Copy Share Image
“As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing… — Garth Risk Hallberg City Copy Share Image
“But every impulse becomes unbearable sooner or later.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
