James Russell > James's Quotes

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The morning rays beam particle-scattered sunlight across the room.”
― A.J. Campbell, Don't Come Looking

“Might it be a form of energy? Can it be recycled? Can we reuse it?”
― Hanne Ørstavik, The Blue Room

“I love you. – I love you too, John. – Is it crazy to love someone you’ve only spent seven days with in person? – No, it’s crazy to love someone when you’ve known them for years.”
― Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth

“The deeper the pain you have, the more you hide it. I am sure I am not the only one who has suffered. The bitter truth is often covered with fake smiles.”
― Soji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

“Twenty years of joy and support and friendship, that’s a success. Twenty years of anything with another person is a success. If a band stays together twenty years, it’s a miracle. If a comedy duo stays together twenty years, they’re a triumph. Is this night a failure because it will end in an hour? Is the sun a failure because it’s going to end in a billion years? No, it’s the fucking sun. Why does a marriage not count? It isn’t in us, it isn’t in human beings, to be tied to one person forever.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up and the woman seated beside him turns and says, “Honey, I don’t know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry,” and gives him a lilac-scented embrace. Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I’m just a homosexual at a Broadway show.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene