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Luke Davies is a British writer born in Wales in 1962. His works span across various genres including novels, plays, and poetry, known for his unique narrative style and profound emotional expression.

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All Moments Way Art Bitterness Ends Form Humans Knows Lovers Myth

Famous Luke Davies Quotes

“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 free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.”

Made Wonder Empty Made It Bitterness Resentment

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.”

Ifs Knows Stills Would Be Pain Best Times Without Pain

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“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.”

Humans Moments Desire Understood Depth Companionship Lonliness

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

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

Way Ends Happens Imagine

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“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 its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.”

Important Moments Facts Certain Late Absolutes Too Late Vague Confirmation Immediacy Future Direction

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“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.”

Moments Together Remember Conversation More Time Our Love Love Making Time Passes

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“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.”

I Can Beautiful Like You Lovers Okay Handle Somewhere Else I Like You You Re Beautiful

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“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 of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.”

World Has Beens Form Space Photography Notes Photograph Posts Reminding Post It Notes

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

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

Thinking Knows Want Ends Love You

Author:Luke Davies

“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 other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.” -In the yellow time of pollen”

Water Becoming One Day Mountain Intention Surface Breathe Tales Snow Necks Yellow Pollen

Author:Luke Davies

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

Humans Hate Easy Human Beings Worst Fellows Drought

Book:Candy

Source: Candy

“And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.”

Way Today Tomorrow Realising Candy

Author:Luke Davies

“Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.”

Sadness Comfort Heroin Drained

Book:Candy

Source: Candy

“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.”

People Kind Joy Energy Wind Despair Madness Nervous Sickness Sparks Bewildered Incoherence

Author:Luke Davies

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

Concepts Myth Galaxy Adrift

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“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.”

People Different Moments Purpose Intense Divided Intense Love

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“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.”

Way Years Blood Forgotten Myth Colour Bitterness Warmth Ashes Through The Years

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“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 pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.”

“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 of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.”

Long Art Problem Adventure Curiosity Senses Exploration Long Ago Problem Solving Toes Living My Life Paradigm

Author:Luke Davies

About the Author

Born: 1962
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 20

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