209 Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

The Lonliest Man in the World, she said, only has room in his heart for one person, and if he can’t have that person, he locks himself away. He tells himself no one could possibly love him, but really, it’s that he refuses to love anyone else.

IN NEW YORK, you can get anything delivered. Such, anyway, is the principle I’m operating on.

And I start to feel once more that the lines that have boxed in my life – between past and present, outside and in – are dissolving. That I may yet myself be delivered.

For a moment, he thought he sensed, beneath the visible world, some blind infrastructure connecting the two of them, or the three of them, and connecting them to still others. People he hadn’t even met.

Choice isn’t the same thing as freedom – not when someone else is framing the choices for you.

No past and no future. Save for the fireworker himself, no one ever knows the grand finale is the grand finale until it’s over. And at that point, wherever one is, one won’t ever really have been anywhere else.

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.

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.

On one hand, you couldn’t count on anything; on the other, on any given day, change was vanishingly unlikely.