Manon

“this is what happens to people when they spend their entire life inside books + never come out: real life starts to grate by comparison.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“The Lonliest Man in the World, she said, only has room in his heart for one person, and if he can't have that person, he locks himself away. He tells himself no one could possibly love him, but really, it's that he refuses to love anyone else.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men