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Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there."

The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him in here, where it hurt."

Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him in here, where it hurt.




Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see."

That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with, ' William said."

When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with, ' William said.




Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "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 be studying."

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 be studying.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "An actual artist, living right under her nose."

An actual artist, living right under her nose.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered."

There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.




Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all."

I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "A funny thing happened post-diagnosis. They put him on drugs, things went up and down, but he lived. He lived. It was like a waiting room where they kept not calling your name."

A funny thing happened post-diagnosis. They put him on drugs, things went up and down, but he lived. He lived. It was like a waiting room where they kept not calling your name.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "So he'll keep dragging himself up this bridge between possible worlds, this rickety ruin of light, trying to imagine it might matter if he makes it to the other side."

So he'll keep dragging himself up this bridge between possible worlds, this rickety ruin of light, trying to imagine it might matter if he makes it to the other side.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Famous revolutionary, ' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon."

Famous revolutionary, ' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places where the city ended."

He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places where the city ended.




Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see."

Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see."

Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Actual artists are like mythological creatures, ' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare."

Actual artists are like mythological creatures, ' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "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 unaware, a glass-coffined beauty whose kingdom was in ruins."

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 unaware, a glass-coffined beauty whose kingdom was in ruins.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal."

The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back."

You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive."

No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer."

As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "But what if time worked the other way around?What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?"

But what if time worked the other way around?What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?"

And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way."

There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people."

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here."

It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face."

Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head."

Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the lake tucked away like a pocket mirror."

The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the lake tucked away like a pocket mirror.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "William loathed his family, ' Mercer said. 'With cause."

William loathed his family, ' Mercer said. 'With cause.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this."

As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place."

Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "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 cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away."

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 cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion."

It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out, for the first time in either of their lives."

You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out, for the first time in either of their lives.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close."

When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Whatever he's feeling at a given moment is what he's always been and always will be feeling."

Whatever he's feeling at a given moment is what he's always been and always will be feeling.



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?"

And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?



Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes: "Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were."

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