“And who isn’t less innocent than they lead us to believe? That’s one of the fundamental truths about human nature.”
Glenn Haybittle“The cabinets and shelves are a bright busy choreography of oils, shampoos, conditioners, scrubs, lotions, salts, unguents. Zinnia loves buying pots and bottles and tubes of alchemised essences that smell like yearning or intimacy on the skin.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree“At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree“Every night I build a fire for you, Alowa. Every night I dance on the rooftop for you. Look at the flames, Alowa. Aren’t they beautiful? Look at the smoke. I’m dancing in the smoke, Alowa.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree“It’s in our dreams that we pull people towards us.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree“If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree“Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree“Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree“The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree“To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree“One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.”
Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree