“It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what… — Garth Risk Hallberg Birds 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 Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“But what if time worked the other way around? What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of… — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire Copy Share Image
“Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers pushing up through the earth, Richard could again be one among many.” — Garth Risk Hallberg City-on-fire 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
“Mercer looked around. There was no way anyone could hear. But the walls could, and the earth, and the ghosts of horses,… — 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
“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
