City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg Download Open image ““Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.”” — Garth Risk Hallberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare City-on-fire Garth-risk-hallberg Insight Reading Simile
“...the apartment is an oasis - of civility, kindness, and elegance.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.” — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the bigger the apartment, the harder it is to find room to put up an extra person for the night.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“I left the apartment without even bothering to close the door behind me. Once outside, I faced a world of buildings and faces that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I was too busy destroying my life to bother with a minor detail like contractual obligation. I had veins to blow. A child to… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“Returning to the apartment, I feel a bitter tipsy pleasure at the extent to which my world has fallen apart.” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Maybe I had been alone in that apartment so much by then that I had retreated into some kind of inner, unsociable space that… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“I sat and looked up at the blue sky and across at the blank windows for a long time. A woman I’d once cared… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“How did the apartment look?” Riggle wondered. “Nothing was out of place.” — M. William Phelps 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
“Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.” — 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
“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
“Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.” — 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
