101 Quotes by Paul Russell

Having without having: it’s possible, isn’t it, that that’s worse than not having at all?

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.

Though she’s long ago come to her own conclusions – that when you get down to it, it’s always fucking that matters, not talking.

The world is what it is.

If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?

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?