When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
Glen DuncanThe only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.
Glen DuncanOne develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.
Glen DuncanYes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasnโt it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? โPresume not the ways of God to scan,โ youโve been told in umpteen variations, โthe proper study of Mankind is Man.โ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (Thatโs generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)
Glen Duncan