Paul Russell said this quote

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

~ Paul Russell

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.

~ Paul Russell

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

~ Paul Russell

For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.

~ Paul Russell