City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“Somethings are better in the dark. That isn't true we can't see in dark. There is nothing to light the way, so we stumble,…

— Quinn Loftis

What you see will hurt you; What you don't see will hurt you.

— Anonymous

“Let us reach out to the people and show them an abundance of goodwill. We must, however, learn to identify manipulations as well and…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Without those who tapped into the invisible world, humanity would have remained in the dark and backward...”

— Assegid Habtewold

“Daddy just repeated the word, internship . As an alibi, it was a thing of beauty: its overtones of responsibility, of upward aspiration, were…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret—to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“He lights a cigarette off a candle. These death-tubes, these little crutches or fuses: useful for getting through all sorts of things you don't…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that this was the same Regan he'd known…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg