Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Glen Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 17
Author
Bookseller
Novelist
Writer
Glen A. Duncan
Saul Black
Three
Possession
Schizophrenic
Years
Period
Shrink
Way
Ideals
Thirteen
Periods
Shrinks
Days
Candidate
Year
Recently
Besotted
Girl
Candidates
Orphaned
Away
Ideal
Romantically

More quotes by Glen Duncan

Image
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
Image
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.
Glen Duncan
Image
Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.
Glen Duncan
Image
No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.
Glen Duncan
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.
Glen Duncan
Image
Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.
Glen Duncan
Image
Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.
Glen Duncan
Image
That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
Glen Duncan
Image
Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.
Glen Duncan
Image
The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)
Glen Duncan
Image
You love life because life's all there is.
Glen Duncan
Image
Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.
Glen Duncan
Image
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
Image
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.
Glen Duncan
Image
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
Image
I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.
Glen Duncan
Image
Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.
Glen Duncan
Image
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