“I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects in the world loaded with secret history which pass hands until eventually they excite nothing more than mild… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“I once conjured up this image of Hitler. I imagined that he didn’t kill himself and that he was kept in a kind of open booth at Auschwitz, like a circus attraction of old times. He had been stripped naked and everyone visiting Auschwitz could let him know what they felt about him. Then I extended the picture. I had… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share
“We had a spell that made her become a boy and made me become a girl.” — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“Nothing makes a person more untrustworthy than to be motivated primarily by fear.” — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“My first impression of Venice was that it might be hard to make anything happen there. Everything seemed to have already happened. Venice seemed… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“The beginning of an attack I always experienced as a swell lurching up from unseen depths, similar to the physical sensation of standing waist-high… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes at night the only sound was the syncopated footfalls of a Nazi patrol stiffly marching past in their nailed boots. It was like… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“That he possessed living images in his mind of details I had only witnessed on the television, at the cinema – the Nazi flag,… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“He made me forget myself, sometimes the most precious gift one person can give another.” — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the most secret stubbornly-defended part of our identity is? It’s the private concessions we make to our cowardice.” — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“The Nazis were good at creating hatred. And when you hate you feel a need to triumph. That triumph Hitler knew for a while… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“Memories are like the heart; you mustn’t ask too much of them. Just let them get on quietly with their schooling.” — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
