Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

"Why not simply surrender to oneโ€™s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?"
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"Why not simply surrender to oneโ€™s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?"
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"Our students didnโ€™t used to come from such damaged families,โ€ Louis mused. โ€œItโ€™s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"Absolutely, love matters,โ€ she reiterated. โ€œWe forget that at our own risk."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"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."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"Shirtless, theyโ€™d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?"
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet?"
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe oneโ€™s whole life in irreversible conflagration."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"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?"
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks had watered theirs down to keep their heads lucid), and, last but not least, six or seven eager and receptive youths seated at oneโ€™s feet."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"Did one learn or was one shaped?"
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
"As long as we do violence to other animals, weโ€™ll keep on doing violence to ourselves."
Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
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