209 Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

And you out there: Aren’t you somehow right here with me?

A funny thing about charisma: the same people who can make you feel an inch tall can also make you feel huge, fortified, sometimes almost simultaneously.

It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.

You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday.

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.

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.

Who didn’t exist at the convergence of a thousand thousand stories?

Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.

Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this one, claimed his life. As if he was his own ghost, standing slightly behind himself, observing.