Garth Risk Hallberg
Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg
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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.
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And she learned that you couldn't stockpile anything that mattered, really. Feelings, people, songs, sex, fireworks: they existed only in time, and when it was over, so were they.
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William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.
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As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.
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Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid.
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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.
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For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard usually found paranoia uninteresting, insofar as it swept away the incidental, which was the real grist of history.
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Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.
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William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-
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No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, the divisions, the cataclysms, of ordinary life.
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And as he reached for William's leg, the way a small child will reach for its mother's, there welled up through a small hole in the bottom of Mercer's soul a relief surpassing any he'd ever known in waking life.
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Three's all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.
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It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here.
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Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.
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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 when he was eight; had anything befallen her, the Regan he lost would have been the one who'd perched on the black rocks of the park back then, with all her futures inside.
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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?
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There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.
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And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?
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As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.
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