Paul Russell Quotes

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Chris is a little ashamed of having once fallen for him: it makes him sad how everything changes, how ruthless the heart can be.

Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet?

There must have been a time, before Internet porn, when there wasn’t a script. Nowadays, everybody knows exactly how sex is supposed to go.

If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?

Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?

You get exactly what you want, Anatole’s always suspected, only when you get it it’s no longer what you want, you need something else.

Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one’s whole life in irreversible conflagration.

Class, she reminded herself, was the real marker in America.