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Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.

Everything’s always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.
– Garth Risk Hallberg

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  2. Whatever he’s feeling at a given moment is what he’s always been and always will be feeling. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  3. And didn’t time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted? – Garth Risk Hallberg
  4. 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
  5. Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound. – Kevin CrossleyHolland
  6. There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  7. Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they’re not around other people. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  8. Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  9. William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy- – Garth Risk Hallberg
  10. 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. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  11. Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else’s head. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  12. Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  13. William loathed his family,’ Mercer said. ‘With cause. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  14. As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  15. You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  16. It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  17. When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  18. And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die? – Garth Risk Hallberg
  19. Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  24. America isn’t that far from totalitarianism. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  25. 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
  26. Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
  27. Changing yourself is not about changing of what you are. But changing other’s perspective that they always think you are. – Dancolin Flamiano
  28. The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed. – Billy Graham
  29. Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  30. There’s no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief. – Elizabeth von Arnim
  31. Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed. – Abhijit Naskar
  32. There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn’t me. I’m no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that. – Steve Moore
  33. I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint. – DA Paul
  34. She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face. – Amit Kalantri
  35. An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. – George Orwell
  36. We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves. – Debasish Mridha
  37. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away. – Simone de Beauvoir
  38. Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness. – Andr Gide
  39. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. – George Orwell
  40. If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another. – AJ Darkholme

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