Luke Davies

Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between…

— Luke Davies

“Not only good to be alive, but nice to come with a stranger. Intimacy? For now I want nothing of it. I…

— Luke Davies

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I…

— Luke Davies

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair,…

— Luke Davies

From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had…

— Luke Davies

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

— Luke Davies

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

— Luke Davies

“His eyes are huge and black. I think about desire. There are flickerings that occur, and we know very little about them.…

— Luke Davies

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...

— Luke Davies

“All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.”

— Luke Davies

“For every gain there is a sacrifice, and the removal of the parasite sometimes entails removal of the host.”

— Luke Davies

“What everyone fails to notice, when talking to the other humans, to mothers and lovers and strangers in the streeet, is the…

— Luke Davies

“In the act itself there is a point at which a light that comes from nowhere starts flickering like a strobe. What…

— Luke Davies

“I am so far removed, from everything, that I can’t even cry. There’s a chasm between me, where I am, and the…

— Luke Davies

“Was it possible to feel love with an empty mind? For if the mind was empty, then it was empty of love…

— Luke Davies

“Very quickly I begin to understand the selfishness of my love, the inappropriateness of my relationships, when I realise that every time…

— Luke Davies

When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

— Luke Davies

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

— Luke Davies

“Once upon a time, there was Candy and Dan. Things were very hot that year. All the wax was melting in the…

— Luke Davies

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact,…

— Luke Davies

I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will…

— Luke Davies

Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is…

— Luke Davies

“It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to…

— Luke Davies

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It…

— Luke Davies

“When you talk about love, and family, invariably too you are talking about compassion. This would include the notion that we are…

— Luke Davies