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Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him. — Glen Duncan

A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her. — Glen Duncan

It's why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God. It's not a cry to the Divine, it's a recognition of their own divinity. — Glen Duncan

I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers. — Glen Duncan

... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy. — Glen Duncan

He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was ever enough. — Glen Duncan

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading. — Glen Duncan

Shoved by shock too young into the truth that nothing meant anything. — Glen Duncan

Moll is immoral, shallow, hypocritical, heartless, a bad woman: yet Moll is marvellous. — Glen Duncan

The seriousness of madmen is one of the most exhausting realities. — Glen Duncan

There is no God. And that's His only Commandment. — Glen Duncan

While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies. — Glen Duncan

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them. — Glen Duncan

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments. — Glen Duncan

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to? — Glen Duncan

Hot tip: If you're a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now. — Glen Duncan

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss. — Glen Duncan

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. — Glen Duncan

For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over. — Glen Duncan

You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body. — Glen Duncan

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all. — Glen Duncan

What would it be like without Him? — Glen Duncan

This would be my torture: all that didn't bear thinking about would devote itself to forcing me to bear thinking about it. — Glen Duncan

It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own. — Glen Duncan

That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do. — Glen Duncan

Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices. — Glen Duncan

I'm still bothered.
You're French. If you lot stopped bothering the coffee and tobacco industries would collapse. — Glen Duncan

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain. — Glen Duncan

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it. — Glen Duncan

There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it. — Glen Duncan

Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong. — Glen Duncan

I rather wished I'd stabbed him somewhere less awkward. — Glen Duncan

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. — Glen Duncan

He loved the feel and smell of her palm and because he was one of those men who was always ultimately looking to dissolve himself into a woman. — Glen Duncan

All vampires smoke. Smoking's high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time. — Glen Duncan

eyes: so transparently enslaved by the soul — Glen Duncan

He didn't protest much. Evidently he had a penchant for surrender. — Glen Duncan

Yo!"
"We good?"
"We're good."
"Okay. You've broken Mr. Marlowe's window, however."
"Apologies, boss. Exuberance. — Glen Duncan

For the love of Mary, I get it, she's got a nifty twat. Tell me what I need to know and you can go up there and try'n get back into it. — Glen Duncan

Not smart. Happily stupid. Stupidly happy. — Glen Duncan

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus. — Glen Duncan

Fuck the miracle of life, where do I sign up for a hysterectomy? — Glen Duncan

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process. — Glen Duncan

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. — Glen Duncan

I am a man of lost faiths. — Glen Duncan

She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it. — Glen Duncan

Grace only exists to be
fallen from. — Glen Duncan

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. — Glen Duncan

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. — Glen Duncan

The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations. — Glen Duncan

There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?' — Glen Duncan

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next. — Glen Duncan

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world. — Glen Duncan

I counted seventy-three shades of grey in an eight-by-ten room. — Glen Duncan

You have a good cry, lovey, you'll feel better afterwards. You did feel better afterwards, but as if you'd conned yourself, fobbed yourself off. — Glen Duncan

But what's heartbreak? A feeling. I've had it with feelings, even if they haven't had it with me. — Glen Duncan

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself. — Glen Duncan

Every present anger derives from past weakness. — Glen Duncan

Speaking was temporarily beyond him, what with the testicular trauma and ass-stabbing. — Glen Duncan

When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else. — Glen Duncan

(One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. — Glen Duncan

Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood. — Glen Duncan

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'. — Glen Duncan

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress. — Glen Duncan

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room. — Glen Duncan

Don't kill me - you fucking cunt.
Hot tip. If you're trying to get someone to not kill you, avoid calling him a fucking cunt. — Glen Duncan

Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses... — Glen Duncan

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever. — Glen Duncan

Reader, I ate him. — Glen Duncan

I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception. — Glen Duncan

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere. — Glen Duncan

Then what happened next happened. — Glen Duncan

Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English. — Glen Duncan

I'm too conceited for therapy. — Glen Duncan

But all the while and all the while and all the while the world. — Glen Duncan

The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy. — Glen Duncan

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly — Glen Duncan

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan

He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually. — Glen Duncan

Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows ... — Glen Duncan

You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'?
What?
So that the audience would know it wasn't. — Glen Duncan

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity. — Glen Duncan

Embrace determinism and you're chained all the way back to the beginning. Of the universe. Of everything. — Glen Duncan

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you'd be miserable poor. — Glen Duncan

I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth. — Glen Duncan

This writing malarkey should come with a health warning: MAY CAUSE INCESSANT DEVIATION FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION, AND DROWSINESS. — Glen Duncan

In the face of every reason for breaking don't break because if nothing, absolutely nothing else I'm here with my hand on you. You're not alone. — Glen Duncan

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. — Glen Duncan

Do you know how few men there are worth having? — Glen Duncan

It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina! — Glen Duncan

It's why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn't have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living. — Glen Duncan

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities. — Glen Duncan

What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films. — Glen Duncan

I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it. — Glen Duncan

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from. — Glen Duncan

I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans. — Glen Duncan

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. — Glen Duncan

She revisited sex now as a ruined project she couldn't entirely give up on. — Glen Duncan

She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader. — Glen Duncan