City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg Download Open image ““Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.”” — Garth Risk Hallberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare City-on-fire Description Garth-risk-hallberg Simile
“This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into… — LJ Smith Copy Share Image
“The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“That was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable…When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness.” — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“There was a crash. Ceiling panels rained down, lights exploding. They had run from the building, had run through the courtyard, and there were… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“And that’s when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“A pain exploded up high in her chest and spit her out of this terrible world.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“That night she sat for hours, too numb to even drink, teaching herself to breathe in a vaccum. For this, oh God, was the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Her breath caught in her throat, for she heard the clatter of death waiting to fall.” — Kate Danley Copy Share Image
“The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.” — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
“When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.” — Missy Lyons 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 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 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. And then… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 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 he'd known… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 you don't… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.” — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 supposed to… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 to this… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 on a… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“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 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 Copy Share Image
“Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty?” — Garth Risk Hallberg 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. And then… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 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 he'd known… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 you don't… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.” — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 supposed to… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 to this… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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 on a… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“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 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 of them,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
