“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
“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
“Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?” — Paul Russell Archaeologists 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
“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
“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 Grass 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
“Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?” — Paul Russell Doom 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
“The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.” — Paul Russell Body 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 Hands 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 Apart Copy Share Image
“You’re the enemy. You’re the one who’s going to defeat yourself.” — Paul Russell Defeat Copy Share Image
“Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.” — Paul Russell Illusion 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
“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
“She simply could not imagine lives ending so soon. Oh, you poor young men, she thought wildly.” — Paul Russell Ending 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
“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 Carried away Copy Share Image
“Absolutely, love matters,” she reiterated. “We forget that at our own risk.” — Paul Russell Love 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
“Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.” — Paul Russell Demons Copy Share Image
“People always had one kind of animal or another inside them.” — Paul Russell Animal Copy Share Image
“Class, she reminded herself, was the real marker in America.” — Paul Russell America Copy Share Image
