Famous Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

  • I didn’t drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all. – Garth Risk Hallberg

    I didn’t drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all.– Garth Risk Hallberg

  • There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered. – Garth Risk Hallberg

    There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.– Garth Risk Hallberg

  • America isn’t that far from totalitarianism. – Garth Risk Hallberg

    America isn’t that far from totalitarianism.– Garth Risk Hallberg

  • The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference. – Garth Risk Hallberg

    The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.– Garth Risk Hallberg

  • 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. – Garth Risk Hallberg

    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.– Garth Risk Hallberg

  • And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true. – Garth Risk Hallberg

    And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true.– Garth Risk Hallberg

  • The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he’ll ever get where he’s going, and behind him, where he’s come from might as well not be there. – Garth Risk Hallberg

    The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he’ll ever get where he’s going, and behind him, where he’s come from might as well not be there.– Garth Risk Hallberg

  • Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were. – Garth Risk Hallberg

    Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.– Garth Risk Hallberg

  • And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die? – Garth Risk Hallberg

    And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?– Garth Risk Hallberg

  • Whatever he’s feeling at a given moment is what he’s always been and always will be feeling. – Garth Risk Hallberg

    Whatever he’s feeling at a given moment is what he’s always been and always will be feeling.– Garth Risk Hallberg