101 Quotes by Paul Russell

"Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her."

"People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all."

"You’re the enemy. You’re the one who’s going to defeat yourself."

"Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived at carefully and through reason, but really no more than marauding appetites cunningly tricked out as reasonable choices?"

"Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?"

"Was this what was called falling in love, this wayward glimpse of another person’s soul?"

"The miracle,” Claire said, “is that anybody stays together."

"What was inside him would never go away. What had happened would never not have happened."

"Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy, intractable burden of bodies, the sheer tedium of our confinement in the flesh?"

"He had had an inkling, even then, that only by losing himself, the well-behaved Connecticut boy he’d always been, might he ever hope to find his other, truer self."