Glen Duncan citations

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

“Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.”

“Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.”

“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”

“You love life because life's all there is.”

“I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.”

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

“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.”

“Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.”

“Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.”

“Reader, I ate him.”

“I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.”

“There's no such thing as. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.”

“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]”

“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.”

“Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.”

“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.”

“Hell […] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.”

“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”