Tim

“The panic attacks have been a part of Zinnia’s life for almost six months. They allow no pathway back to the innocent complacency with which she once made sense of the world around her. With every new attack more of her identity crumbles. Every day the panic rubs something else out that has been achieved with application, sometimes with inspiration.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree

“Women, quite rightly, have a scorn for men who act only with hindsight.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Scorched Earth

“Bereavement is sometimes like wading across a succession of snowfields with no landmark in sight. You are a lone small figure in a vast barren landscape. Other times it’s like a Ferris wheel ride. Like being strapped into a swinging spinning bucket. The dizzying dislocation from familiar grounded reality.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“It turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven