“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.” IdeasReasonPainJokesStupidityGiantsNuanceCaress Book:A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel Source: A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel
“I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.” FirstsHumansLongTwoReasonRememberKnowingSawsSeeingDangerousEmotionalHairTypeHorrorTransformationScaryLegsMoodAppealsKicksSuspectsDreadLimbsWerewolfGeeseClawsHybridFingernailsEmotional Appeal Author:Glen Duncan
“Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)” IfsMenWayMeanI CanReasonStoriesBeautifulFormFoundAnimalStudyMankindDevilExcuseCrashVariationBotheredEdenBeing ThereExcuse MeKeyholes Book:I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
“There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.” IfsYearsHumansLooksReasonCoursesAsksCausesFourEffectsCancerTeaProseScoreOrgansSaneStrokesAssaultInabilityFatigueEightyMundaneCause And EffectRealisationDementiaIfs AndPegSheilaQuiche Book:The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1) Source: The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)
