“Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Change Copy Share Image
“Here is what you want: your life stays just the same, while I twist myself around you like a vine.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Life 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
“A vision of underground connections flashed before him again, only inverted. A towering construction like a tree strung with lights, shimmering, changing,… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part… — Garth Risk Hallberg Allusions Copy Share Image
“How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“Whatever he's feeling at a given moment is what he's always been and always will be feeling.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there… — Garth Risk Hallberg Beauty Copy Share Image
“What he had remembered was to tuck among his changes of clothes one of Regan's framed photographs of the four of them… — Garth Risk Hallberg Change Copy Share Image
“When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“ Infinite Jest not only says that being human is hard work; it makes us work hard. It not only suggests we… — Garth Risk Hallberg David-foster-wallace Copy Share Image
“Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you… — Garth Risk Hallberg Beauty Copy Share Image
“I don't have anything against therapy, by the way; it's great for other people. It's just that, personally, I see the enterprise… — Garth Risk Hallberg Business Copy Share Image
