“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 Aids Copy Share Image
“The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?” — Paul Russell Astray 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 Dance Copy Share Image
“Had she allowed the flame to burn so low it was now in danger of complete extinction?” — Paul Russell Flame 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 Clouds 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 Creatures 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 Know 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
“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 Asshole Copy Share Image
“I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.” — Paul Russell Communication Copy Share Image
“Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.” — Paul Russell Children Copy Share Image
“She simply could not imagine lives ending so soon. Oh, you poor young men, she thought wildly.” — Paul Russell Ending Copy Share Image
“You’re the enemy. You’re the one who’s going to defeat yourself.” — Paul Russell Defeat 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
“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
“Was this what was called falling in love, this wayward glimpse of another person’s soul?” — Paul Russell Falling 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
