209 Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

Failure is so much more interesting.

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.

I looked at her, exhausted in the hospital bed, and she looked at you, and you looked at me looking at her with eyes that had never known anything else, and for a moment there I swear we saw each other with a clarity that nothing can alter, not time, not heartbreak, not death.

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

Maybe we’re just fundamentally destined for unhappiness.

The four food groups of bachelorhood: Frozen, Cold Cuts, Breakfast Cereal, and Takeout.

How could anarchy be any worse for the general welfare than this? I say let the city go bankrupt, the buildings fall, let grass take over Fifth Avenue. Let birds nest in storefronts, whales swim up the Hudson. We can spend mornings hunting for food, and afternoons fornicating, and at night we’ll dance on the rooftops and chant shantih shantih at the sky.

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

Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.