Quotes By Person: Glen Duncan

“'Do you ever have those dreams,' Harriet rasped, slowly, 'where you've done something, something terrible and irreversible? Something horrific, and no matter how much you're sorry it's no good? It's indelible?'
'No.'
I didn't look at her. Didn't need to. I knew what she'd look like, lying on her side, face to the window, the city's lights minutely captured in the glossy convexities of her tired eyes. I knew she'd be unblinking, her cheek squashed in the deep pillow, her mouth dripping a single strand of spittle. I knew she'd look sad as hell.
'I have that dream all the time,' she said. 'Except when I'm asleep.'”

-I, Lucifer, Glen Duncan

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“But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.”

-I, Lucifer, Glen Duncan

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“Her face is a map of remembered trouble and absorbed guilt, The green eyes look broken, as if their glass has shattered. A motorway pile-up of wrecked mascara. Lashes jewelled with tears.”

-I, Lucifer, Glen Duncan

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