14 Quotes About City On Fire

We all have a dream, a vision in our mind that we want to achieve in life. Whether it’s to win a medal in the Olympics, change the world, or just be rich and famous, there’s nothing wrong with big dreams. But if you have no idea how to get from point A to point B, you might find yourself lost in the woods without a compass. It can be difficult to realize one’s destiny when everything seems so far away Read more

That’s why it’s important to always look out for new ways of getting there. The following collection of city-on-fire quotes will show you the way.

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I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgivable. She knew, she said, but that was part of what had been confusing her, that I would even have told her that, as if she weren't an actual human being with the freedom to act, but some character in a scenario in my head. There was a quality I had of making the people closest to me feel lonely, somehow. Some essential cold withholding at the core of myself. . Garth Risk Hallberg
One day, he and William had been speeding toward each...
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One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why? Garth Risk Hallberg
Some people think the real them is whoever they are...
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Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people. Garth Risk Hallberg
Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The...
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Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face. Garth Risk Hallberg
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No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New York, they'd likely just tell him Get over it. .. Was it possible that the last month had been a kind of judgement on him for ever daring to pretend that anything meant anything at all? Garth Risk Hallberg
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It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion. Garth Risk Hallberg
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And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die? Garth Risk Hallberg
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I keep having this fantasy about some wide river or channel I'm on the bank of. I can look up, and on the far side is another, better self, holding hands with Mercer–that's his name, my ex–and both of them are watching me flail over here, watching me from the life I'm supposed to have had. When did it become impossible to get there from here? When did that bridge get burned? Garth Risk Hallberg
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An actual artist, living right under her nose. Garth Risk Hallberg
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I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all. Garth Risk Hallberg
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He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places where the city ended. Garth Risk Hallberg
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Actual artists are like mythological creatures, ' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare. Garth Risk Hallberg
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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