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Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you could not smell. — Garth Risk Hallberg

What would Walt Whitman do? — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

But every impulse becomes unbearable sooner or later. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

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

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

Her eyes were glistening, but for some reason he couldn't reach out and touch her. It was like some gestures were so simple they were beyond him. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire. — Kelly Link

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

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

Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty? — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers pushing up through the earth, Richard could again be one among many. — Garth Risk Hallberg

They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexul and Had Low Expectations. — Jace Herondale

How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken. — Garth Risk Hallberg

But porca miseria, the things night can do to time. In place of hardwired sequence, it's more like everything all mixed up. — Garth Risk Hallberg

It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here. — Garth Risk Hallberg

One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why? — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

He wanted his articles to be, not infinite exactly, but big enough to suggest infinitude. — Garth Risk Hallberg

An actual artist, living right under her nose. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

Do you understand how rare it is to get a real chance to save someone? — Garth Risk Hallberg

My thighs and hips are on fire. I don't know where I end and you begin. — Amanda Carlson

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

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

More things we learned from the Rising: It's hard to gentrify a city that's on fire. — Mira Grant

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire. — James Baldwin

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

He must have felt a disturbance just beyond the boundless world his eyes perceived. Maybe like dogs we know when we are being hunted. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

Mercer looked around. There was no way anyone could hear. But the walls could, and the earth, and the ghosts of horses, and the state of Georgia. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

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

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

Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of. — Garth Risk Hallberg

You remember that saying, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life?' There's something awful about that saying. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

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

Come on," he said.
"Let's get back to Alec before he decides Isabelle and Simon are having sex off in the caves and starts freaking out. — Cassandra Clare

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

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

Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire. — Frankie Boyle

It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what they wanted. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

Ours was a city on fire with becoming, the suburbs reaching farther from the core by the week. — Kim Cooper

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

Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Pushing deeper into the farm, the blue land swollen under all those stars, he felt like a figure in a dream. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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