“ 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 sm… Glenn Haybittle
“ And who isn’t less innocent than they lead us to believe? That’s one of the fundamental truths about human nature. Glenn Haybittle
“ 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
“ 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
“ Esme skips on ahead. Jumping from one foot to the other, as if she can see markings on the ground he can’t. She is constantly jumping and skipping and twirling with the lightness of falling snow, look… Glenn Haybittle
“ 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
“ There they are. Dancing in a circle. Shadows swinging over the snow. Calling upon the ancestors. Each wearing the sacred shirt. Side stepping to the left in time to the echoing heartbeat of the drums… Glenn Haybittle
“ Today she feels she is the master of her craft. Today she is free of the grinding tyranny of doubt. The voice that mocks her ambition. The voice that bites and slanders and causes her more heartache t… Glenn Haybittle
“ The snow, the effect of concealment and secrecy it creates, makes him think of the brutality of the wartime legislation to forbid and violently extract secrets. It is as if the hushed white landscape… Glenn Haybittle
“ 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 act of creation, the impetus to undertake it, is always some kind of feeble attempt to understand one’s own creation, the nature of creation itself. Glenn Haybittle
“ 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
“ Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born. Glenn Haybittle
