Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
– Garth Risk Hallberg
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- Don’t raise me up, I am but a messenger. – Jimi Hendrix
- And didn’t time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted? – Garth Risk Hallberg
- There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they’re not around other people. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- It’s like Charlie’s dreamed everything he lived through here. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Everything’s always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy- – Garth Risk Hallberg
- 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
- Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else’s head. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- William loathed his family,’ Mercer said. ‘With cause. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- 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
- When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close. – 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
- And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die? – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were. – 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
- 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 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
- The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- America isn’t that far from totalitarianism. – 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
- 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
- Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- 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
- In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others. – Shelley Hendrix
- Surviving is good, but overcoming is better. – Shelley Hendrix
- The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn’t be free. – Shelley Hendrix
- We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ. – Shelley Hendrix
- When you know who you are, you know what to do. – Shelley Hendrix
- And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
- Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. – Iveta Cherneva
- Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you’re taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward. – Elise Kova
- And it certainly wasn’t a choice without risk. But then very few worthwhile things in life are. The greater the risk, the greater the reward. – Heather Hackett
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
- You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. – Lauren DeStefano
- To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy. – Jocelyn Soriano
- …one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. – Markus Zusak