Garth Risk Hallberg

"An actual artist, living right under her nose."

"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."

"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."

"The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal."