Was it possible to feel love with an empty mind? For if the mind was empty, then it was empty of love too.
Luke DaviesThe 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.
Luke DaviesIn 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.
Luke DaviesWe are all, I realise, even as I write this, merely moving closer to our deaths. At the end of this sentence I am closer to mine than I was at the beginning. It's relentless. It's a savage thing. And yet for a long time I've carried with me a sense of life opening out. Evidently it's some kind of protective illusion.
Luke DaviesLove 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.
Luke DaviesIt is so exquisitely funny and sad, the way we view each other; how very little, despite our best efforts, we communicate.
Luke DaviesEverything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
Luke DaviesWhat is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other's undulations?
Luke DaviesImperceptibly, 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.
Luke DaviesI 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.
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