“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
“There were two options—call the foul or don't—and either way, he would lose, but there was a thrill here in this moment when actual combat might have replaced the shadowboxing he'd been doing for months now with every last person he loved.”
Garth Risk Hallberg“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“And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?”
Garth Risk Hallberg“The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.”
Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire“An actual artist, living right under her nose.”
Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire“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, City on Fire“There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.”
Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire“And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?”
Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire“One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why?”
Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire“College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.”
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