Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be. Glen Duncan More Quotes by Glen Duncan More Quotes From Glen Duncan I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception. Glen Duncan deeply-in-loveperception Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. Glen Duncan butterflymindbeautiful When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I think of Adam in those pre-marital days. I know he's your great-to-the-nth-degree-granddad and all - but I'm afraid he was rather an imbecile. Glen Duncan hairchildrenthinking Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from. Glen Duncan clawshammersgrace I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God. Glen Duncan adamblamestruggle Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.) Glen Duncan animalbeautifulmean 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. Glen Duncan threegirlyears Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion. Glen Duncan making-a-differencedifferencesknowing 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? Glen Duncan religiousdarkrain Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. Glen Duncan meaninglesslifemean The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility. Glen Duncan moved-onfleshhands 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. Glen Duncan loving-someoneheartlaughing Peace is purchased in the currency of loss. Glen Duncan currencyloss One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying. Glen Duncan silenceflowerdying I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. Glen Duncan unbearabledefinitionslying We’re the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it’s only the best thing for us if it’s the worst thing for someone else. Glen Duncan best-thingsworst-thingsworst 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 selfarguingpast 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 than you like liking what you do... [Lucifer] Glen Duncan darlingluciferdiscovery 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 sheepanimalfacts The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. Glen Duncan wrathgriefmean
