174 Quotes by Glen Duncan

The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective.

Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

No amount of violence you’ve done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you’re not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

Her face is a map of remembered trouble and absorbed guilt, The green eyes look broken, as if their glass has shattered. A motorway pile-up of wrecked mascara. Lashes jeweled with tears.

The rain’s been racing earthwards as if with some religious or political fanaticism. The clouds have the look of dark internal bleeding. Surely you lot look up from Cosmo while this sort of thing’s going on? Surely you take a Playstation break?

Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they’d fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn’t help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.