City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“Other people were in one world; he was in a second. And the distance between their worlds caused other concern and perplexity made them…

— Russell Banks

“He saw a world he had not seen before; a world made not for mastery but for living. Once seen it was a very…

— Don Berry

“He looked around at the others....They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has noticed the…

— David Baldacci

“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“He already understand that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often…

— Paul Auster

“He HAD seen the world. It had been scary at times, but also exhilarating. Who could have imagined it would be such a complicated,…

— Elise Broach

“He saw through everybody, but he saw through them precisely because the first thing he looked for in people was the very thing he…

— André Aciman

“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.”

— Arthur Golden

“He realized then that his eyes might already be open: but blind to what was happening to him, and around him.”

— Brian Spangler

“...it occurred to him that maybe the world wasn't so bad after all... gradually details he hadn't noticed began to come into focus... Almost…

— James Dashner

“Me, all seeing. He, blind and unseeing, but, somehow, seeing it all so clearly. I envy him.”

— Katherine Owen