As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.
– Garth Risk Hallberg
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- 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
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- 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
- …one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. – Markus Zusak