“Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?” — Paul Russell Doom Copy Share Image
“Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.” — Paul Russell Illusion Copy Share Image
“There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.” — Paul Russell Education Copy Share Image
“Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Absolutely, love matters,” she reiterated. “We forget that at our own risk.” — Paul Russell Love Copy Share Image
“The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.” — Paul Russell Body Copy Share Image
“Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.” — Paul Russell Life Copy Share Image
“As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.” — Paul Russell Animals Copy Share Image
“Everything I say is right. "Everything I say is wrong. There are many conflicting opinions in this industry. Don't take one person's… — Paul Russell Christianity Copy Share Image
“Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?” — Paul Russell Family Copy Share Image
“Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of… — Paul Russell Flower Copy Share Image
“But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy,… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself… — Paul Russell Irony Copy Share Image
“Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“He had had an inkling, even then, that only by losing himself, the well-behaved Connecticut boy he’d always been, might he ever… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Was this what was called falling in love, this wayward glimpse of another person’s soul?” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“There are a few scattered moments in one’s life when everything seems possible.” — Paul Russell Life Copy Share Image
“Class, she reminded herself, was the real marker in America.” — Paul Russell America Copy Share Image
“If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?” — Paul Russell Change Copy Share Image
“The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Anybody can be anybody, he told himself as he eased his body down onto Devin’s, the blunt pain of a beautiful pleasure… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Louis had learned to be suspicious of the word educational . It covered, after all, a multitude of sins.” — Paul Russell Education Copy Share Image
“Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one’s whole life in irreversible conflagration.” — Paul Russell Fire Copy Share Image
“Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.” — Paul Russell Boys Copy Share Image
“Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families,” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“When you get right down to it, we don’t ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be… — Paul Russell Hope Copy Share Image
“Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.” — Paul Russell Criminal Copy Share Image
“I’ll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That’s my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
