101 Quotes by Paul Russell

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

"It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student."

"The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?"

"Okay, he thinks, perhaps it’s time for everybody to move on; nothing lasts forever, it’s part of the physics of friendships, alliances, whatever it might be they perpetrated for a while among themselves."

"Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed."

"Better to burn than to rot."

"A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine."

"Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves."

"Homo sapiens, which as far as I can tell is only another way of saying weaponised chimpanzees who are hellbent on tearing their cage apart without realising it’s not a cage, it’s their fucking life support they’re shredding."

"The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart."