City On Fire Quotes

No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.

Garth Risk Hallberg

When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with,' William said.

Garth Risk Hallberg

You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out, for the first time in either of their lives.

Garth Risk Hallberg

William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.

Garth Risk Hallberg