Quotes from Luke Davies

If I could find someone to blame, perhaps I could get angry. Anything would be better than this sadness, this sense of regret for events that were never mine.

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 at depth.

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

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 free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

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

Love of my life. Love. Of. My. Life. A retrospectively absurd concept since the most I can say is that he was the love of a particular period of my life, and that it is the random vagaries of life itself, and never love, that define time limits. Meaning, to be in love and wish for its immortality is energy unwisely spent. The idea that we have any choice in the matter is the great illusion.

She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.

That's all that faith is, the knowledge that the greater thing is with you. That's all the faith you need. The knowledge that you are not the greater thing.

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

It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. And it feels like being born

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.

It was all about eyes, the truth.

What is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other's undulations?