174 Quotes by Glen Duncan

But I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God – then having it taken away, forever.

This would be my torture: all that didn’t bear thinking about would devote itself to forcing me to bear thinking about it.

I’m in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its... motivation.

Once you’ve stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart’s just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don’t love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim’s incredulity’s potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.

You save yourself. That’s all. You save yourself, or you’re damned.

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 shrink with whom she’s romantically besotted.

When you’re a kid it’s people’s cruelty that makes you cry, then when you’re an adult it’s their kindness.