He was quiet, cooperative. He’d made his decision. He knew his soul would have to deal with the consequences, but for now, God had lost. It was a relief to him. It always is, to find the edge of yourself. To know the exact limit of your strength. It’s a relief because not knowing it is an exhausting full-time job.

— Glen Duncan

Glen Duncan Quotes

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

— Glen Duncan

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

— Glen Duncan

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

— Glen Duncan

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep’s got to teach.

— Glen Duncan

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

— Glen Duncan

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

— Glen Duncan

One knows one’s madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

— Glen Duncan

Your unavowed atrocities kill you from the inside out. What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion? Jacqueline Delon had asked. She was wrong. It’s a survival necessity. You can’t live if you can’t accept what you are, and you can’t accept what you are if you can’t say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam.

— Glen Duncan

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

— Glen Duncan

Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loded with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the bowels’ recurring mould. Who would have thought mere flesh and blood could hold so much of psyche’s ghostly script?

— Glen Duncan

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.

— Glen Duncan

There’s always someone’s father, someone’s mother, someone’s wife, someone’s son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

— Glen Duncan

He was quiet, cooperative. He’d made his decision. He knew his soul would have to deal with the consequences, but for now, God had lost. It was a relief to him. It always is, to find the edge of yourself. To know the exact limit of your strength. It’s a relief because not knowing it is an exhausting full-time job.

— 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.

— Glen Duncan

Human love didn’t eradicate God, but it put Him into His proper distant second place.

— Glen Duncan

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

— Glen Duncan

Moll is immoral, shallow, hypocritical, heartless, a bad woman: yet Moll is marvellous.

— Glen Duncan

The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

— Glen Duncan

You can’t live if you can’t accept what you are, and you can’t accept what you are if you can’t say what you do.

— Glen Duncan

But what’s heartbreak? A feeling. I’ve had it with feelings, even if they haven’t had it with me.

— Glen Duncan
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