A Day and a Night and a Day Quotes

“Like her, he didn't buy the Nietzschean line that whatever didn't kill you made you stronger. Sometimes whatever didn't kill you disfigured and debilitated you for the rest of your life instead of killing you. Mere survival was neither here nor there. It was the manner of survival, what you did with whatever it was that didn't kill you.”
― Glen Duncan, A Day and a Night and a Day

“He'd sensed the strength she'd called on to haul her sexuality out from under the weight of infertility. In his experience childlessness in women either warped into a dedication to self-hating sexual expertise or formed a subsonic noise of sadness and loss.”
― Glen Duncan, A Day and a Night and a Day

“She revisited sex now as a ruined project she couldn't entirely give up on.”
― Glen Duncan, A Day and a Night and a Day

“Thanks," she says - and suddenly tears well and fall. Augustus understands: not because she's suffered but because he's helping her. When you're a child people's cruelty makes you cry. When you're an adult it's their kindness.”
― Glen Duncan, A Day and a Night and a Day

“Darkness now is pure phenomenon, nothing to do with him. This is the final relationship with the universe: you find solace only in things that offer none.”
― Glen Duncan, A Day and a Night and a Day

“Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing . . .”
― Glen Duncan, A Day and a Night and a Day

“You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body.”
― Glen Duncan, A Day and a Night and a Day

“Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.”
― Glen Duncan, A Day and a Night and a Day

“It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.”
― Glen Duncan, A Day and a Night and a Day