“It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“...I said. "But there are bibliophiles the world over it would reduce to tears of joy." No exaggeration. Harley's [book] collection's worth… — Glen Duncan Bibliophiles Copy Share Image
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their… — Glen Duncan Kindness Copy Share Image
“Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses...” — Glen Duncan Creation Copy Share Image
No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. — Glen Duncan Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I passed a large dark room where a wall-mounted flat-screen with sound muted showed an overweight rapper performing rap hand gestures, which… — Glen Duncan Dark room Copy Share Image
“The moment you think is unbearable forces you to disappoint yourself by bearing it. There's resigned laughter available, for the hilarity of… — Glen Duncan Comedy Copy Share Image
“He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine.… — Glen Duncan Book Copy Share Image
I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one… — Glen Duncan Absurdity Copy Share Image
“One knows one's madness, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer… — Glen Duncan Beast Copy Share Image
“but it was humanly good to be touched too, to be alone with someone at the secret feast that went all the… — Glen Duncan Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“The bad smell around the transfer of lucre was that it smacked of providing for her after my death. Neither of us… — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
“No such thing as destiny. But Fluff had come after me, not her -- and it had brought the two of them… — Glen Duncan Destiny Copy Share Image
“How to describe hell? Disembowelled landscape busy with suffering, incessant heat, permanent scarlet twilight, a swirling snowfall of ash, the stink of… — Glen Duncan Hell Copy Share Image
“I saw our future together compressed into a moment; our faces changing, desire having to cope and reinvent itself at each new… — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
“When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes through me with crazy… — Glen Duncan Curse Copy Share Image
If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there… — Glen Duncan Appetite Copy Share Image
I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment,… — Glen Duncan Autonomy Copy Share Image
“Hot tip: If you’re a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission. — Glen Duncan Art Copy Share Image
“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before… — Glen Duncan Bible Copy Share Image
“Speaking was temporarily beyond him, what with the testicular trauma and ass-stabbing.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image