209 Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New York, they'd likely just tell him Get over it . . . Was it possible that the last month had been a kind of judgement on him for ever daring to pretend that anything meant anything at all?

What galled him most was the presumption of these writer types, as if there weren’t actual people in the world, with jobs to do, appointments to keep, wives to appease, but only so much material.

Great prose replenishes the language it’s written in...

Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you could not smell.

Pushing deeper into the farm, the blue land swollen under all those stars, he felt like a figure in a dream.

When she awakened in the a.m. into blind-slit shrinking nowhereness, it had all gone disorientingly quiet, and she would imagine for a few seconds she was back there in that mausoleum of a ranch house in the San Fernando Valley.

Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers pushing up through the earth, Richard could again be one among many.

Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.

Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.