Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. Glen Duncan More Quotes by Glen Duncan More Quotes From 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 butterfly mind beautiful 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 hair children thinking Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from. Glen Duncan claws hammers grace 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 adam blame struggle 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 animal beautiful mean 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 three girl years 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-difference differences knowing 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 religious dark rain Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. Glen Duncan meaningless life mean 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-on flesh hands 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-someone heart laughing Peace is purchased in the currency of loss. Glen Duncan currency loss 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 silence flower dying I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. Glen Duncan unbearable definitions lying 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-things worst-things worst 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 self arguing past 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 darling lucifer discovery 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 sheep animal facts The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. Glen Duncan wrath grief mean You love life because life's all there is. Glen Duncan love-life
