“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
“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
“The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.” — Paul Russell Around the corner 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
“Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?” — Paul Russell Doom 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 Hard-on 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
“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
“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 Cells 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
“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
“Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.” — Paul Russell Hammer 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 Bodies 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“People always had one kind of animal or another inside them.” — Paul Russell Animal 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
“What was inside him would never go away. What had happened would never not have happened.” — Paul Russell Happened Copy Share Image
“All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.” — Paul Russell Desire Copy Share Image
“A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.” — Paul Russell Calories 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
“The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.” — Paul Russell Body Copy Share Image
“Absolutely, love matters,” she reiterated. “We forget that at our own risk.” — Paul Russell Love Copy Share Image
“Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed.” — Paul Russell Allowed Copy Share Image
