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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
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
Moll is immoral, shallow, hypocritical, heartless, a bad woman: yet Moll is marvellous.
— Glen Duncan
There is no God. And that's His only Commandment.
— 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
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
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
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
I'm still bothered.
You're French. If you lot stopped bothering the coffee and tobacco industries would collapse. — Glen Duncan
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
I rather wished I'd stabbed him somewhere less awkward.
— 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
Yo!"
"We good?"
"We're good."
"Okay. You've broken Mr. Marlowe's window, however."
"Apologies, boss. Exuberance. — Glen Duncan
"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
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
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
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
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
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
then having it taken away, forever. — Glen Duncan
Reader, I ate him.
— 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
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
You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'?
What?
So that the audience would know it wasn't. — Glen Duncan
What?
So that the audience would know it wasn't. — Glen Duncan
Embrace determinism and you're chained all the way back to the beginning. Of the universe. Of everything.
— 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 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