“Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.” — Paul Russell Illusion 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
“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
“Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?” — Paul Russell Archaeologists 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 Anarchy 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
“Louis had learned to be suspicious of the word educational . It covered, after all, a multitude of sins.” — Paul Russell Education 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
“Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for… — Paul Russell Condition Copy Share Image
“There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.” — Paul Russell Boys Copy Share Image
“Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.” — Paul Russell Called Copy Share Image
“He had had an inkling, even then, that only by losing himself, the well-behaved Connecticut boy he’d always been, might he ever… — Paul Russell Find Copy Share Image
“Anybody can be anybody, he told himself as he eased his body down onto Devin’s, the blunt pain of a beautiful pleasure… — Paul Russell Anybody Copy Share Image
“Had she allowed the flame to burn so low it was now in danger of complete extinction?” — 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
“You’re the enemy. You’re the one who’s going to defeat yourself.” — Paul Russell Defeat Copy Share Image
“Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.” — Paul Russell Children Copy Share Image
“I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.” — Paul Russell Communication 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything’s mixed. There’s no absolute good and there’s… — Paul Russell Absolute Copy Share Image
“And anyway, never, never apologise the morning after for what your hormones were telling you last night.” — Paul Russell Apologise Copy Share Image
