“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
“Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed.” — Paul Russell Allowed 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
“A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.” — Paul Russell Calories 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
“I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.” — Paul Russell Communication 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
“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
“There are a few scattered moments in one’s life when everything seems possible.” — Paul Russell Life 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 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
“It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.” — Paul Russell Failure Copy Share Image
“Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.” — Paul Russell Children 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
“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
“Had she allowed the flame to burn so low it was now in danger of complete extinction?” — Paul Russell Flame 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
“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
“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
