174 Quotes by Glen Duncan

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.

Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it’s paved with intriguing questions.

There is no God and that’s His only commandment.

Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you’d understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.