The Last Werewolf Quotes

“Afterwards, sitting on my bunk, I cried. I read somewhere that when you’re a kid it’s people’s cruelty that makes you cry, then when you’re an adult it’s their kindness. I hadn’t realised until that moment how completely I’d given up any entitlement to kindness.

And then when I saw Jake, so visibly strung out, looking so totally alone, the makeup felt cheap on my face, a stupid girl’s gesture. (The girl’s still in there, waist-deep in the blood and guts of the monster’s victims. There might be something out there that’ll kill the girl but if so I can’t imagine what it could be.)

Are you okay? I’m fine. Are you all right? I’m fine. Weeks of waiting and then when the moment comes you trade the plainest words.

The nearness of him hurt, my heart, my head, my breasts, my womb, it felt like, started the wolf trying to tear itself free.”
― Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf

“My wife's eyes sought mine for the old recognition, but found there a difference that would have been less nightmarish had it been less slight.”
― Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf

“We're hanging around waiting for this to not seem so painful when the fact is it's only going to get more painful the longer we hang around.”
― Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf