“ 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 energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy. Luke Davies
“ If time stood still, and we could choose thetime, the best time,then love withoutpain would be all I know. 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 like you as a lover, not a friend. Luke Davies
“ All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break. Luke Davies
“ I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: What's the point? Luke Davies
“ I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. 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 bleac… Luke Davies
“ His eyes are huge and black. I think about desire. There are flickerings that occur, and we know very little about them. Millimetres of dilation are words in a language. Luke Davies
“ Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it. 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. Luke Davies
“ And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows. Luke Davies
“ When you talk about love, and family, invariably too you are talking about compassion. This would include the notion that we are all just lumped together, and tolerance is a virtue. Luke Davies
“ What everyone fails to notice, when talking to the other humans, to mothers and lovers and strangers in the streeet, is the one obvious point: 'future corpse, future corpse. Luke Davies
“ 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. Luke Davies
“ For every gain there is a sacrifice, and the removal of the parasite sometimes entails removal of the host. Luke Davies
“ Very quickly I begin to understand the selfishness of my love, the inappropriateness of my relationships, when I realise that every time I fuck it feels as if I am wrestling with demons. Luke Davies
“ In the act itself there is a point at which a light that comes from nowhere starts flickering like a strobe. What happens is not exactly a hallucination. But it wells up from deep in the earth and pou… Luke Davies