Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

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I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgivable. She knew, she — 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
As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this. — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
But what if time worked the other way around?What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present — 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
But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that th — 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
Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people. — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here. — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face. — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
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 — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy- — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, the divisions, the ca — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head. — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough f — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause. — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer. — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
And she learned that you couldn’t stockpile anything that mattered, really. Feelings, people, songs, sex, fireworks: the — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire