By Blood We Live Quotes

“He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you’d understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“Full moon rises. You change. You need what you need, so you do what you do. The kill – like the show – must go on.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“The moment you think is unbearable forces you to disappoint yourself by bearing it. There's resigned laughter available, for the hilarity of your own durability.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was ever enough.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“He says: ‘Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“There are things you think you won’t be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that only become thinkable once you’re already doing them.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“We stayed like that, him watching me crying, for as long as we could stand it. Then he took a couple of paces away. The room needed a window for him to go to and look out of. I could feel the grammar of the moment demanding it.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“But wulf did what it does: Simply insisted. Simply burned through. Simply defied. The same shrugging, grinning continuance. The nature of life. The nature of the beast.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“The truth doesn’t care what anyone wants. The truth is innocent. You can’t blame the truth.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“How was the light today?”
“Big. Hot. Yellow-white. The sky’s blue was like a drumbeat. I watched the black tree shadows revolve. When the sun went down it was like someone’s hand was pulling it, very gently. It was soft-edged and orange. The land went purple, then dark blue and grey, then black. Then you opened your eyes.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“It’s the inner life that fucks up relationships.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“No such thing as destiny. But Fluff had come after me, not her -- and it had brought the two of them together anyway. It was impossible to write it off as a series of accidents. Both ideas impossible to believe and impossible to dismiss. Which is what he's told me Christ knows how many times before, about the signs, the connections, the correspondence between things, the goddamned beguilement. You have to both believe it and know it can't be true, he'd said. You have to learn how to be the wry servant of two masters. I'd been so annoyed, I'd said: Yeah. I've never know what the fuck 'wry' actually means.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life you spent not being like that. It made you realize what a waste not being like that was.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If there's a God he's addicted to faith. Because without evil there's no need for faith. I can't get excited about a God who's divinity depends on a drug habit.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“He was quiet, cooperative. He'd made his decision. He knew his soul would have to deal with the consequences, but for now, God had lost. It was a relief to him. It always is, to find the edge of yourself. To know the exact limit of your strength. It's a relief because not knowing it is an exhausting full-time job.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“It’s why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God. It’s not a cry to the Divine, it’s a recognition of their own divinity.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“Hot tip: If you’re a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“There were so many things I liked. That was the awful thing about being alive: there were so many things one liked. The awful thing about life was that there were so many thingsm full stop.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“wasn’t”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live: The Last Werewolf Trilogy III

“I will come back to you. And you will come back to me. Wait for me.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live

“The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.”
― Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live