The Salt Point Quotes

“It is Halloween,” he explains coyly. “I wanted to come out as something beautiful. None of this witch stuff for me. My God, don’t we spend our whole life as witches?”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“Leigh stands there, not so much a figure to scare crows as to beckon doves.”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“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.”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“You get exactly what you want, Anatole’s always suspected, only when you get it it’s no longer what you want, you need something else.”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“There’s always people looking the other way when the miracles take place, people who want only a good night’s sleep when the stars are dancing, comets falling, the angels leaning low out of midnight with their trumpets, their cantatas of longing.”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“Fuck it. All she thinks about these days is whether something’ll get her into trouble. Who cares? There was certainly a time when she didn’t: and she was a better person then.”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“Having without having: it’s possible, isn’t it, that that’s worse than not having at all?”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“She thinks about the salt point, that mysterious, elusive moment of change.”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“That’s the way Chris lives, warning everyone who gets close of the lightning that may strike. Never touch anything, never make a mark. But Anatole can’t live that way. The world’s too lonely a place: he has to touch things, he has to put his arms around them.”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“Sometimes Anatole wonders just where the elusive point is, where you stop being sane.”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point

“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

“Chris is a little ashamed of having once fallen for him: it makes him sad how everything changes, how ruthless the heart can be.”
― Paul Russell, The Salt Point