209 Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

And people in love are not to be trusted.

If you throw a banana at a wall, there’s a small possibility that it will pass through the wall.

When you were young, you had the resources to rebuild after each crater fate blasted in your life. Beyond a certain age, though, you could only wall off the damage and leave it there.

It seemed impossible that he’d chosen to live here, at a latitude where spring was a semantic variation on winter, in a grid whose rigid geometry only a Greek or a builder of prisons could love, in a city that made its own gravy when it rained.

I don’t think you can really change anything unless you’re willing to say yes.

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.

What he wanted above all to get right was the web of relationships a dozen column inches had never been enough to contain. Family, work, romance, church, municipality, history, happenstance... He wanted to follow the soul far enough out along these lines of relationship to discover that there was no fixed point where one person ended and another began.

Love, as Mercer had heretofore understood it, involved huge gravitational fields of duty and disapproval bearing down on the parties involved, turning even small-talk into a ragged struggle for breath.

But I guess what I would want to leave each of you with finally – tender some Evidence of, against a life’s worth of signs to the contrary – comes down simply to this: You are infinite. I see you. You are not alone.