Luke Taylor Quotes & Sayings

His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act. — Luke Taylor

I just want you to know, I love the way you look at me. Make's me feel like everything's gonna be okay. — Luke Taylor

Whatever lived in Marbh Raon could not grow; yet such could not die, as all was held in an ethereal state of turbulent animation, too bound with dread to move, thus remaining forever still. — Luke Taylor

I know my place. I always did. I just never knew how to get there. — Luke Taylor

That's Hill." She said in a voice only he could hear in the room of nearly thirty on duty Law Enforcement Officers and Officials.
"I know."
"How do you know?"
"I saw you stare him down."
"You were watching me watch him?"
Erland shrugged.
"When you put it that way. — Luke Taylor

Then he thought of Marland just now, on the edge of the hill, how the newborn sun flamed over her shoulder, having burned through the fog of the night; how the tops of the trees were beneath her feet and the city of Crescent was small enough to fit in the palm of her hand. Her face could change like the sky itself and like the sky never lost its radiance and beauty. Sierra Marland was a facade with no end and yet she had been as genuine and true to him as the heavens were blue. — Luke Taylor

Speak straightly." I said. "You've come to steal something, haven't you? — Luke Taylor

Great relationships create great characters. Make them feel real. Alive. Tangible and unforgettable. Bad relationships kill them. Bury them. Make you wish they hadn't wasted your precious time. — Luke Taylor

Death was in the darkness, and it swallowed what it willed, what it wanted, and it wanted infinity, from east to west like an ever-digesting stomach of razor-wind teeth. — Luke Taylor

With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end. — Luke Taylor

It is far easier to take a blow to the cheek than a blow to one's pride. Broken bones can heal, but a broken mirror must be replaced. — Luke Taylor

Would you believe me if I told you I had amnesia?"
Her eyes narrowed. She didn't speak immediately.
"Yes I would."
"Why?" The man asked. "Why would you believe me?"
The woman smiled.
"Because it's a terrible pickup line. — Luke Taylor

He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't.

He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.

So he wasn't going to now. — Luke Taylor

I'm perceptive enough to understand people's souls to the extent that I know the real thing only happens in fairy tales but ever so often if people are patient enough...and mature enough, they find that person that unlocks a secret in their heart, even if they've never laid eyes on each other...it's as if they already knew each other from a past life and they've been walking through amnesia waiting to remember what always was. — Luke Taylor

Life is about connection, not perfection. — Luke Taylor

I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes. — Luke Taylor

Right words, sometimes they escape me; curses nay so much. Of them I am kin. — Luke Taylor

Your face says much, thief. Trust me, I'm the one who's looking at it. — Luke Taylor

There was no victory in death, just death. To live through the chaos would be victory and it would come at an extremely high cost. — Luke Taylor

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand. — Luke Taylor

The blue eyes watched the Texan as his python skin boots took him into the dimness of the hall of doors and his escape from Corazon's ICU was a clip clopping stride of broken confidence caught in the rebellious lighting of a cigarette. — Luke Taylor

And whilst so much escaped her mind, such could nay escape her heart, so eager to receive the witnesses of such chance-built things, like seed in soil. — Luke Taylor

So what could she do? If he was gone, he was gone; and where he had gone he had not wanted her to follow. — Luke Taylor

I've seen a lot in my years, Aerlyn. And when I look at you, I see a rose, not a thistle."
Her heart caught in her throat and she nearly snorted.
"You see what you want to see."
Quill chuckled to himself. At the thorns in her voice.
"As do you, Thistle. Can you tell me what I can see any more than I can tell you want you see?"
"No."
"Then let me see what I want to see." He said, turning to face her, and she jabbed her midnight gaze at him before twisting her head to see the many sorrows sleeping beneath his own lake blue eyes. "Because I see what no one else sees. — Luke Taylor

If you plant junk, don't expect to harvest jewels. — Luke Taylor

What was there in a man's life, but what he saw and what he could not? — Luke Taylor

It was about time their nose for trouble had a woman's touch. — Luke Taylor

Erland turned his eyes to the window and the figure that stood before it with arms crossed, staring into the anamorphic slurry of colors caught together in the burying of the sun as night fell like a jar of blue-black paint. — Luke Taylor

Temptation is temptation." Lucy flipped another
page, her reading intent and steady. "No matter what the stakes. — Luke Taylor

Loomis waved a hand and a squiggly trail of smoke followed like a magic wand. Loomis had a captivating subtlety and charm and was capable of more tricks than a sage in Pharaoh's court. — Luke Taylor

Look...I've already decided I wanted to find out what happened, I'm fine with the consequences...so, if I am going to lose my job, I at least want to know the truth before I do. — Luke Taylor

The man looked up and Tanya was staring at him through watery eyes.
"Now you know. I don't see how it changes anything."
"It doesn't. You're still a diamond in a field of mud."
Tanya smirked.
"And what about you?"
"I don't know what I am."
"What do you want to be?"
"It's not that easy. — Luke Taylor

Don't forget where you came from, but always remember where you're going. — Luke Taylor

Marland sighed. Her guesses were pretty good, but that was the bulk of her career in a nutshell. — Luke Taylor

A writer should be judged on how red they make their reader's eyes. — Luke Taylor

You can tell me. I won't cry. — Luke Taylor

He'd failed them, the swimming goldfish of his life's tiny existence whom he held so dear in his heart; he'd turned his muses into mistakes and no one knew the difference but him. — Luke Taylor

Her face, as God had made it, was beyond compare. — Luke Taylor

To reach for yourself is to survive, to reach for others is to provide. — Luke Taylor

You stole my heart before I could give it to you. — Luke Taylor

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. — Luke Taylor

Don't write what you know. Write who you are. Write your heart and soul. Write what you dream of when you look to the stars. — Luke Taylor

Dead men's gold belongs to no one. — Luke Taylor

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers. — Luke Taylor

Life's just an adventure. Can't live it standing still. — Luke Taylor

A story is only as good as its villain. — Luke Taylor

Of course I believe in magic. I believe in storytelling. — Luke Taylor

The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules. — Luke Taylor