“... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.” — Glen Duncan Vampires 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
What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. — Glen Duncan Life Copy Share Image
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 Alter ego 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
“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
“It's a ridiculous story, of course, but history's full of ridiculous stories. 'You can't make this shit up,' one finds oneself saying,… — Glen Duncan History Copy Share Image
One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If… — Glen Duncan Faith Copy Share Image
The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam 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
“Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought… — Glen Duncan Book 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 Life Copy Share Image
“He'd sensed the strength she'd called on to haul her sexuality out from under the weight of infertility. In his experience childlessness… — Glen Duncan Childlessness Copy Share Image
“How was the light today?” “Big. Hot. Yellow-white. The sky’s blue was like a drumbeat. I watched the black tree shadows revolve.… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Some part of me . . . had been waiting, since Kelp's death, for certainty that God . . . was either… — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, he missed her, their shared history. The way they remained tuned to each other across a room full of people. He's… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I waited. Nothing. Here again was the colossal silence where God's, someone's, anyone's voice should have been. Learn this lesson now, my… — Glen Duncan Silence Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the concept is that it takes the wind out of so many would-be ethical sails: the company that owns… — Glen Duncan Beauty 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 Erotic Copy Share Image
“She had something Adam didn't. Curiosity. First step to growth -- and if it wasn't for Eve's Adam would still be sitting… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“This had occurred to me. But for no reason I can dignify with anything higher than the authority of a two-hundred-year-old gut… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image