"What passes relentlessly through the years is blood,……" — Luke Davies
"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 eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth."
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20 Quotes by Luke Davies
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The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.
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Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily…
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For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and…
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From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as…
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When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...
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The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so…
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If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all…
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In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and…
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Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
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I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs,…
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Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making.…
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You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just…
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