Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree Quotes
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.
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.
The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.
Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.
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?
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.
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.