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She is accustomed to studying faces. Usually what she seeks in them is inspiration. Today she looks for signs of malice and treachery. -- Glenn Haybittle
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She inhales the peppery warm breath of the cypresses. She loves their scent. It's a scent that seems to make moments memories even before they've stopped happening. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Up ahead are a forest of searchlights. A thicket of long thin smoking beams pivoting back and forth. Stabbing at the darkness. Making of the sky a kind of dome as though V Victor is about to enter some supernatural cathedral of light. -- Glenn Haybittle
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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
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He follows a man with a rolled up mattress strapped to his back. When he stepped down from the train into the brutalising glare of the searchlights in the marshalling yard he noticed two SS soldiers pointing at this man and laughing. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husband. These are places she goes to renew her virginity. -- Glenn Haybittle
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And who isn't less innocent than they lead us to believe? That's one of the fundamental truths about human nature. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Oskar pushes away the blanket. Lies looking down at his naked body. His naked body that will give the lie to any false identity papers he manages to procure. Has anyone, he wonders, ever explained to me the significance of circumcision? Why I have had to sacrifice to God a piece of my sexual organ. -- Glenn Haybittle
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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
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Every time he is unable to answer one of her questions he feels another theft of strength from his limbs. -- Glenn Haybittle
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When darkness settles over the city two prongs of light suddenly reach high up into the night sky. The searchlights remain fixed, two bright smoking fingers lighting up the underside of clouds and providing a canopy of light over the city. She feels enchantment forging a ring around the moment. -- Glenn Haybittle
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The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Italian as a language, she thinks, suits children with its singsong cadences and rising lingering inflections, its quick swinging gait and easy adaptability to argument, to passionate outbursts. -- Glenn Haybittle
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He knows if he kills this man he will see his face every night before he goes to sleep. That his face will become more vivid to him than his own face. If he kills the man he will be forced to wear this man's face for the rest of his life. -- Glenn Haybittle
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They are flying now above a dreamscape of rollercoasting white cloud crests. It feels sometimes like a premonition of death. Being so high up in the sky where no other living creature can survive. Where there is nothing solid. Just shifting transparency, luminous endless space. -- Glenn Haybittle
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It is Davy's job to decipher and transmit information into code. Sexual language is like that, Freddie thinks. Everything coded. Everything stripped down to elementary dots and dashes. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Isabella pauses as something in her body holds itself erect, then arches towards the voice of Oskar's little girl, like a flower tilting under the weight of its hoard of pollen. -- Glenn Haybittle
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She turns to look down at the tiered vineyards and, beyond, the vignette of Florence in the valley as if scooped up on a spoon. Its domes and spires and rooftops appearing to float on a tide of unearthly mist as inviolate and inaccessible as a private longing. -- Glenn Haybittle
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The moon seems to shine back at her the increased need of intimacy, of secrecy and seclusion the war has made everyone feel. -- Glenn Haybittle
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She realises how little she knows about this man. Her knowledge little more than a thin sheen of brightness, like reflected sunlight on an opaque pond. -- Glenn Haybittle
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On a piece of wasteland in Leeds I once saw a used condom in the grass. A dead and sordid thing. And yet to my thirteen-year-old mind the whole mystery of life seemed to stream through it. Nothing I've seen since has been so eloquent of the thrilling and terrifying mysteries of life. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Perhaps it is both the tragedy of life and the blessing of life that most moments only happen once. -- Glenn Haybittle
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She remembers once handing her father a flower she picked and how in the act of giving she experienced herself as that flower - the sticky stalk resin, the hard green shoots, the sheltered stamens and raw red anthers. She needed him to understand her no less than she needed to remain a mystery. -- Glenn Haybittle
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They stood by the open window of their hotel room with the rain sweeping into their faces. A bolt of lightning lit up the Grand Canal. Struck it out of the darkness in a searing eloquent flash. The expectation was that the night to come would be no less bracing, no less eloquent. -- Glenn Haybittle
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I'm an artist," she says. It always costs her an effort to make this statement. As if she is handing over a false identity card. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Father love is ancient and austere, like mountains. It is difficult to accept the collapsing of a mountain. -- Glenn Haybittle
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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
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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
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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
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Nothing quite prepares you for the sight of your dead father. Nothing is more unbelievable than the sight of death on such a familiar face. -- Glenn Haybittle
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The less bravely we live the more stifling becomes our fear of death. -- Glenn Haybittle
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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
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The painting you saw in your mind was beautiful when it was your secret. Once it's on the canvas it's as if someone else has got hold of your secret and sullied it, distorted it. -- Glenn Haybittle
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She is like the rain that loosens the scent from things. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Often of late she has accused herself of being a hard woman. As if she will not suffer her soil to be raw and tender, will not submit to the vulnerability of the new green shoot. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Did you know the English wouldn't dream of putting olive oil on food? They use it for ear infections. Freddie told me."
"Yes, I've heard their cuisine hasn't evolved since the Middle Ages. -- Glenn Haybittle
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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
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Hugh is now playing a game on his mobile phone. His greasy fat fingers with bitten down nails surprisingly agile on the keys. The concentration on his face is admirable in a way. It was probably with a similar level of concentration that the theory of relativity was formulated. -- Glenn Haybittle
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When a woman tilts her head to fasten an earring she so often becomes for the moment a quintessence of herself, he thinks. She becomes a thrilling foreign language. -- Glenn Haybittle
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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 is showing how sacrosanct are our secrets, how much of our vitality is bound up in them. -- Glenn Haybittle
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When he thinks of his wife now it is like walking barefoot down steps to the sea at night. A secretive act. A moment of wonder he treats with caution as though shielding a buffeted flame. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Strange, she thinks, how vulnerable the back of your neck feels when you listen to silence. -- Glenn Haybittle
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One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger. -- Glenn Haybittle
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The death beams slide around the sky like dancers on ice. As if exchanging partners in this vaulted ballroom of coloured smoke. He imagines a Strauss waltz accompanying the dance of the Nazi searchlights. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Look how beautiful the flames are, Alowa. Look how beautiful my naked body is, Alowa. Are you looking at my naked body? I'm dancing towards you. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Never leave home without your memories. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Children don't expect words to be used to create false trails. Words to Esme are plain and simple with no hidden codes, no duplicitous underlife. He thinks of the conversations with his wife and how little of what they said was without encryption. -- Glenn Haybittle
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He likes to think of himself as someone who can give quick clever answers to awkward questions. It is an important part of his self-esteem. -- Glenn Haybittle
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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
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It's our memories that teach us who we are. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Florence exists to educate our memory. -- Glenn Haybittle
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It's in our dreams that we pull people towards us. -- Glenn Haybittle
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There are olive trees outside and the imagined smell of their bark and silvered leaves brings with it the first unfurling of some new imperative she feels coiled up within her. Her whole body with a joyful shout know it is back in Italy. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Agreements have to be made in the dark for them to be binding. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Landscapes of fields and small clusters of buildings hurtle past outside like fragments of songs never sung in their entirety. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Outside, he stretches up his arms beneath the brightening sky. His breath and heartbeat like a gift newly restored to him. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Over imagine something beforehand and you take the pulse out of it when it happens. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Superstition in wartime takes a more powerful hold on the mind. One sees omens in everything. One is returned to a more primitive view of the world and its sign language. -- Glenn Haybittle
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Sharp lines draw too much attention to themselves, like vanity. And what's vanity but a series of sharp lines which have yet to be softened? -- Glenn Haybittle
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Artists, like criminals, are dependent on a jury. -- Glenn Haybittle