“When he gets up he spends an hour kicking and stamping on his French horn so he will not have to play it again. Music, maths, these are things that no longer make any sense to him. They are too… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“When he gets up he spends an hour kicking and stamping on his French horn so he will not have to play it again.… — Paul Murray Copy Share
“Halley believed that a kiss was the beginning of a story, the story, good or bad, short or long, of an us, and once… — Paul Murray Copy Share
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and… — Paul Murray Copy Share
“Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly… — Paul Murray Copy Share
“His wife is washed up against him, clinging lifelessly to his arm like seaweed, with no pretense of listening to the priest's small talk.” — Paul Murray Copy Share
“It doesn’t matter where you go though, nowhere feels big enough to contain you, even if you’re right in the middle of the mall… — Paul Murray Copy Share
“-so that for these few moments it actually seems that Ruprecht could be right, that everything, or at least the small corner of everything… — Paul Murray Copy Share
“Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no… — paul murray Copy Share
“For Guido the past, like a Third World country, was merely another resource to be exploited and abandoned when the time comes; and that… — Paul Murray Copy Share
“Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your… — Paul Murray Copy Share
“...the greatest victories are therefore never without the shadow of loss; every path you take, no matter how lofty or effulgent, aches not only… — Paul Murray Copy Share
“The labels on the little bottles and boxes do not tell you which one is the sleeping pill. Instead they have names, long strange… — Paul Murray Copy Share
Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is… — Paul Murray Copy Share
To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you… — Paul Murray Copy Share
Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality… — Paul Murray Copy Share
