Byron and Shelley Quotes

“The further you venture from familiarity the more interesting your thoughts become.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“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

“Nothing generates more intensity than thwarted desire.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“Somewhere at the back of your mind is a blueprint of the real life you feel you ought to be living. Now and again a moment from this life breaks through into the everyday.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“This is the thing about songs. They are shooting stars that can take you back in time.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“Women will always love a man who climbs in through their window, even though, as a general rule, they can’t help marrying a man who waits patiently outside their front door.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“Men who think they have all the answers generally don’t ask very interesting questions.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“The measure of intimacy achieved ought to be the touchstone of all experience.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“The known part of ourselves is a pathetic little creature compared with all that’s unknown within us.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“Sexual attraction is aspiration in its most elemental form.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“The groceries we were raised on can be no less affecting in memory than the toys we played with, the friends we made, the places we made camp.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“Childhood contains prophecies of what awaits us as an adult. No doubt about that. Powerful totems are bound up in trifles.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“The occurrence of coincidence suggests we’re on a trail. And we all want to feel we’re following a trail. At the end of every trail there’s some kind of reward, some form of treasure.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“It’s a favourite sensation of his, the transition from smooth interminable tarmac to the jittery crunch of a gravel drive. It’s like the world suddenly becomes an intimate place again.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley

“Marriage might be the most consuming and documented experience of one’s life but entire stretches of it unfold in a kind of blinkering displacing mist.”
― Glenn Haybittle, Byron and Shelley