“The absurdity of it, she thought, this quest for the love of a man who was her equal. She loathed herself for… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“We found ways. This is the story, the human story, the werewolf story, the life story: One finds ways. Kissing, slowly, was… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Life, the dramatist of speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“But wulf did what it does: Simply insisted. Simply burned through. Simply defied. The same shrugging, grinning continuance. The nature of life.… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“You took a life and the theft went unpunished. God didn't strike you down. The sky didn't fall. The morning after, you… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“There were so many things I liked. That was the awful thing about being alive: there were so many things one liked.… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“For the longest time the romantic explanation for low rates of female infection endured: Possession of a womb, it was supposed, conferred a gentleness… — Glen Duncan 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 creation.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations.” — Glen Duncan 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
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… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
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… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. — 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 mards, I… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies we were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
