“When he gets up he spends an hour kicking and stamping on his French horn so he will not have to play… — Paul Murray French horn Copy Share Image
“Halley believed that a kiss was the beginning of a story, the story, good or bad, short or long, of an us,… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and… — Paul Murray History Copy Share Image
“Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams… — Paul Murray Attraction Copy Share Image
“His wife is washed up against him, clinging lifelessly to his arm like seaweed, with no pretense of listening to the priest's… — Paul Murray Marriage Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter where you go though, nowhere feels big enough to contain you, even if you’re right in the middle of… — Paul Murray Change Copy Share Image
“-so that for these few moments it actually seems that Ruprecht could be right, that everything, or at least the small corner… — Paul Murray Song Copy Share Image
“Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while… — paul murray Add Copy Share Image
“For Guido the past, like a Third World country, was merely another resource to be exploited and abandoned when the time comes;… — Paul Murray Third world Copy Share Image
“Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to… — Paul Murray Humor Copy Share Image
“...the greatest victories are therefore never without the shadow of loss; every path you take, no matter how lofty or effulgent, aches… — Paul Murray Left behind Copy Share Image
“The labels on the little bottles and boxes do not tell you which one is the sleeping pill. Instead they have names,… — Paul Murray History Copy Share Image
Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in… — Paul Murray Bored Copy Share Image
To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it,… — Paul Murray Able Copy Share Image
Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates… — Paul Murray Bows Copy Share Image
“Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of its own, so much more vivid, wherein… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“You know, you spend your childhood watching TV, assuming that at some point in the future everything you see will one day… — Paul Murray Career-paths Copy Share Image
“I only meant, you know, you shouldn’t be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the… — Paul Murray Advice Copy Share Image
“Never trust an Italian. The Nazis did that, and look where it got them.” — Paul Murray Stereotypes Copy Share Image
To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath… — Paul Murray Balanced Copy Share Image
“Out here the sunsets were like Italian operas, torrid, emotional affairs that went on for three hours or more, hanging in the… — Paul Murray Sunsets Copy Share Image
“Fix that hair! Close that mind! Repeat after me! Page me the second the old man croaks it! Now, are you boys… — Paul Murray Old man Copy Share Image
“To look out the window, it might be the 1980s still, the height of the heroin plague, the police doing nothing, the… — Paul Murray Children Copy Share Image
The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from… — Paul Murray Acceptance Copy Share Image
