“ For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more… Glen Duncan
“ If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hu… Glen Duncan
“ It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible do… Glen Duncan
“ Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to? Glen Duncan
“ It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket. Glen Duncan
“ We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. 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… Glen Duncan
“ The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation. Glen Duncan
“ I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt… Glen Duncan
“ Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are ma… Glen Duncan
“ You took a life and the theft went unpunished. God didn't strike you down. The sky didn't fall. The morning after, you turned on the faucet and water still came out... It was still good when you raise… 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
“ Werewolves are not a subject for academe,” she said, “but you know what the professors would be saying if they were. ‘Monsters die out when the collective imagination no longer needs them. Species dea… Glen Duncan
“ I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. Glen Duncan