Luke Davies Quotes

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• The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.
• Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.
• What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten…
• For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of…
• From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt…
• When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...
• The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So…
• If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.
• In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship…
• Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
• I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in…
• 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 immeasurably sad.
• 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 like you as…
• It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us…
• When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.
• I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each…
• Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.
• And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.
• Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.
• Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous…

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