Gemma

“It's only when I'm sad that I feel truly wise.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Scorched Earth

“Beauty is a private moment in the mind, which we then seek to communicate.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Scorched Earth

“So much of our life is the circling of a dream. The dream, a changeable elusive presence, is at the heart of our identity, it is the fabric to which all our qualities are stitched. Did it matter that the dream never found fruition in the physical world? The important thing was never to relinquish it. It’s the dream which keeps beauty as an animating source of strength in our lives, which reminds us we are connected to a larger reality.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“She quickly learned that the sight of Venice at given moments can root you in your deepest longings. It can also make you realise your identity too is built on shifting water, consists of rising and falling tides, countless ephemeral reflections and refractions. Venice can wash through you the love you have never made, the battles you have never fought, the beauty you have never created. It can flood to the surface everything you have lost and everything you have never known. It can reveal you to yourself without your carnival masks.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice