“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else’s head.”— Garth Risk Hallberg Related Quotes “There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.”— 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 “Was she Minh Thuy, finally, or was she Jenny? But the time when there had been a meaningful difference between the two would come to seem like a tiny neighborhood where you couldn’t decide which house was yours. Which felt important when you were high above, you thought, in the foothills, but not so much at the truer remove of a continent, where the lives you’d lived and the places you’d come from, dwindled to a single point on the horizon, in the incorrigibly distant past.”— Garth Risk Hallberg