“Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes.” — Glen Duncan Courage Copy Share Image
“Full moon rises. You change. You need what you need, so you do what you do. The kill – like the show… — Glen Duncan Full moon Copy Share Image
“Darkness now is pure phenomenon, nothing to do with him. This is the final relationship with the universe: you find solace only… — Glen Duncan Darkness Copy Share Image
“You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it… — Glen Duncan Enters Copy Share Image
There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would… — Glen Duncan Books 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
“Embrace determinism and you're chained all the way back to the beginning. Of the universe. Of everything.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
We’re the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it’s only the best thing for us… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the… — Glen Duncan Girl Copy Share Image
“The pornologue's mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions… — Glen Duncan History Copy Share Image
“... all his strength gathered in his hips and chest and his arms wrapped around me and his breath jabbed soft and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself… — Glen Duncan Affair Copy Share Image
Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning… — Glen Duncan Delusion 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
“For almost a decade I was haunted by the memory of Deborah Black, I was about to claim. But the memory didn't… — Glen Duncan Memory Copy Share Image
“I wish you had fucked her. Then you’d know. Then you’d know the sublime … Her asshole, for example. It’s like a… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Catholicism fascinated him, the contortions it put itself through to make ends meet. Father Murray had kept returning to the word 'despair.'… — Glen Duncan Holy spirit Copy Share Image
“Werewolves are not the subject of academe,” she said, “but you know what the professors would be saying if they were. ‘Monsters… — Glen Duncan Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“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… — Glen Duncan Multiple personality 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
“The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael” — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
“It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.” — Glen Duncan Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“You're fond, I imagine of your right eye? I mean, you've gone to the trouble of putting make up on it.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would… — 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 Blessings Copy Share Image
The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's… — Glen Duncan Animal Copy Share Image
For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them. — Glen Duncan Alcohol Copy Share Image
“You give thanks for small things. I gave thanks that I was wearing jeans, not a skirt. People start trying to kill… — Glen Duncan Gratitude Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most… — Glen Duncan Books Copy Share Image
“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… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose… — Glen Duncan Dinner party Copy Share Image
“He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.” — Glen Duncan Mind Copy Share Image
That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The truth doesn’t care what anyone wants. The truth is innocent. You can’t blame the truth.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
