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61 " 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. "
― Paul Russell , The Salt Point
62 " The miracle,” Claire said, “is that anybody stays together. "
― Paul Russell , The Coming Storm
63 " The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander? "
64 " Louis had learned to be suspicious of the word educational. It covered, after all, a multitude of sins. "
65 " What was inside him would never go away. What had happened would never not have happened. "
66 " Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed. "
67 " The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another. "
68 " Better to burn than to rot. "
69 " Haven’t you ever gotten carried away and done something totally spur of the moment like that?”“Everybody gets carried away from time to time,” Tracy told the boy who had carried him away. "
70 " What bound people together was so fragile. "
71 " You know you've got my support", Reid told him. "Whatever difficult decisions you need to make. All I would ask is that you be alert to..." For a moment he seemed at a loss."To what?" Louis said impatiently.Reid picked up a votive candle from the dresser top and observed its flickering light. "The shimmer of things," he said. "The spirit and not the letter. "
72 " Nobody disappears completely anymore. The only thing that’s disappeared is privacy, which is never coming back. And which is probably a good thing. Why should anything be private? No hiding, no guilt, no shame. Just a completely transparent world. "
― Paul Russell , Immaculate Blue
73 " Then it comes to him—how you can’t return to a place you’ve never been to, can’t recapture what you never had. The chances you miss stay missed forever. "
74 " This whole fucking country’s got it great and doesn’t even know it. Why? Because the price for having it so great gets paid somewhere else, by somebody else, where you don’t have to see it. Out of sight, out of mind. That’s the fucking key to the whole shit system. Stay blind, stay deaf. "
75 " 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. "
76 " You’re the enemy. You’re the one who’s going to defeat yourself. "
77 " But it’s not real life. It’s just America. "
78 " We should all be merely animals. As humans, there are miseries nothing can put us out of. "
79 " People always had one kind of animal or another inside them. "
80 " Does everybody always have to be on the prowl for love? "