101 Quotes by Paul Russell

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.

She simply could not imagine lives ending so soon. Oh, you poor young men, she thought wildly.

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

My darlings! You can hardly expect an aged crone like me to mar such a lovely event. No, I shall remain here and knit shadows. Now go forth and shine bravely, and think of nothing but love.

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 no absolute evil. There’s just a lot of confusion.

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

It is Halloween,” he explains coyly. “I wanted to come out as something beautiful. None of this witch stuff for me. My God, don’t we spend our whole life as witches?

Fuck it. All she thinks about these days is whether something’ll get her into trouble. Who cares? There was certainly a time when she didn’t: and she was a better person then.

There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.