Paul Russell Quotes
Paul Russell Quotes
Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.
3395A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.
2250There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.
2987The world is what it is.
2916If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?
2674What did beauty matter, anyway?
4077I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.
1270Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?
1469The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.
1843Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.
1018For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.
4083Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?
3495To speak a language that was as intimate and free as certain dreams, saying darkly, thrillingly, My cock inside of you. Your come in my mouth ... He focused on the boy’s slim, tight hips; with the tip of his tongue he tasted an asshole’s bitter, forbidden mystery.
4361Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.
4169What bound people together was so fragile.
2501People always had one kind of animal or another inside them.
2625People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.
4400Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.
3691Was this what was called falling in love, this wayward glimpse of another person’s soul?
3492Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.
2408But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.
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