“Had she allowed the flame to burn so low it was now in danger of complete extinction?” — Paul Russell Fire Copy Share Image
“Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.” — Paul Russell Children Copy Share Image
“I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.” — Paul Russell Communication Copy Share Image
“You’re the enemy. You’re the one who’s going to defeat yourself.” — Paul Russell Defeat Copy Share Image
“She simply could not imagine lives ending so soon. Oh, you poor young men, she thought wildly.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?” — Paul Russell Archaeologists Copy Share Image
“Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet?” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.” — Paul Russell Angel Copy Share Image
“Haven’t you ever gotten carried away and done something totally spur of the moment like that?” “Everybody gets carried away from time… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything’s mixed. There’s no absolute good and there’s… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“And anyway, never, never apologise the morning after for what your hormones were telling you last night.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to… — Paul Russell Life Copy Share Image
“The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.” — Paul Russell Complicity Copy Share Image
“Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“You just call if you have any other problems,” the fire marshall said. “Only – there’s one thing we don’t do. We… — Paul Russell Cats Copy Share Image
“You know you've got my support", Reid told him. "Whatever difficult decisions you need to make. All I would ask is that… — Paul Russell Difficult decisions Copy Share Image
“Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine… — Paul Russell Education Copy Share Image
“For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves… — Paul Russell Human beings Copy Share Image
“Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions… — Paul Russell Appetites Copy Share Image
“To speak a language that was as intimate and free as certain dreams, saying darkly, thrillingly, My cock inside of you. Your… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.” — Paul Russell Failure Copy Share Image
“The miracle,” Claire said, “is that anybody stays together.” — Paul Russell Miracle Copy Share Image
“Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.” — Paul Russell Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.” — Paul Russell Demons Copy Share Image
“All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.” — Paul Russell Desire Copy Share Image
“A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“What was inside him would never go away. What had happened would never not have happened.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“People always had one kind of animal or another inside them.” — Paul Russell Animal Copy Share Image
