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> [She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/she-understood-the-genre-constraints-the-decencies-were-supposed-to/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

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> [The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/the-message-is-clear-by-all-means-become-an-abomination-but-only/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

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## More by Glen Duncan

> [Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/nineteenth-century-english-literature-i-know-19th-century-sewage/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [“For the longest time the romantic explanation for low rates of female infection endured: Possession of a womb, it was supposed, conferred a gentleness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/for-the-longest-time-the-romantic-explanation-for-low-rates-of-female/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/the-question-what-was-there-before-creation-is-meaningless-time-is-a/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [“The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/the-beauty-spot-by-her-lip-was-one-of-a-dozen-or-so-scattered-over/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/fairy-tales-read-before-bed-tend-to-make-me-dream-they-re-all-quite/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/i-don-t-know-where-the-universe-came-from-or-what-happens-to/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/in-a-fit-of-pique-i-said-to-my-agent-i-m-going-to-write-something-you/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [“The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/the-mortals-are-free-lucifer-what-they-ve-done-they-ve-done-from/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/one-day-the-ordinariness-will-be-terminally-punctuated-by-the/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/when-i-see-gurgling-retarded-children-that-s-god-s-doing-by-the-way/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies we were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/she-understood-the-genre-constraints-the-decencies-we-were-supposed/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [“Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/show-us-the-world-s-not-the-way-we-thought-it-was-and-part-of-us/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [“It’s just what you’re stuck with, the lousy furniture you can’t change. The educated me knows hell’s nothing, a fiction I happened to inherit.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/it-s-just-what-you-re-stuck-with-the-lousy-furniture-you-can-t-change/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [“Afterwards, sitting on my bunk, I cried. I read somewhere that when you’re a kid it’s people’s cruelty that makes you cry, then when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/afterwards-sitting-on-my-bunk-i-cried-i-read-somewhere-that-when-you/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

> [“The absurdity of it, she thought, this quest for the love of a man who was her equal. She loathed herself for it. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-duncan/the-absurdity-of-it-she-thought-this-quest-for-the-love-of-a-man-who/)

[Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-duncan/)

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