{"author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg","total_quotes":78,"quotes":[{"text":"Her eyes were glistening, but for some reason he couldn't reach out and touch her. It was like some gestures were so simple they were beyond him.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","comfort","crying","garth-risk-hallberg"],"id":883,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","college","garth-risk-hallberg","humor"],"id":1100,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"An actual artist, living right under her nose.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["artist","city-on-fire","garth-risk-hallberg"],"id":10017,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","garth-risk-hallberg","waiting"],"id":22598,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"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.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","description","garth-risk-hallberg","school","simile"],"id":23279,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard usually found paranoia uninteresting, insofar as it swept away the incidental, which was the real grist of history.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","garth-risk-hallberg","history","incidental","paranoia"],"id":27209,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["america"],"id":43190,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that this was the same Regan he'd known when he was eight; had anything befallen her, the Regan he lost would have been the one who'd perched on the black rocks of the park back then, with all her futures inside.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","garth-risk-hallberg","passage-of-time","time"],"id":48393,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","garth-risk-hallberg","insight","reading","simile"],"id":54699,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"There were two options—call the foul or don't—and either way, he would lose, but there was a thrill here in this moment when actual combat might have replaced the shadowboxing he'd been doing for months now with every last person he loved.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["city-on-fire","conflict","confrontation","garth-risk-hallberg"],"id":69002,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}