Quotes from Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

When you get right down to it, we don't ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there's mystery, there's hope.

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

If I've learned one thing, it's that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything's mixed. There's no absolute good and there's no absolute evil. There's just a lot of confusion.

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

Absolutely, love matters, " she reiterated. "We forget that at our own risk.

I'll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That's my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells and never venture out ...

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.