a g u s t o p í a

“Let’s keep going, I love you, I love you so much” -Pete Doherty on their suicide pact, 1997

“There was one point where I very very nearly, just to be close to him, started taking full on heroin.” -Carl Barat, 2004

“I love him. Wouldn’t go, um - certainly not on Radio 1 - go into too much detail, but… we had lots of wonderful times together, yeah.”  -Pete Doherty,

"I think there’s, y’know, obsession and jealousy on both of their sides. They bitch about each other to each other or to other people. They have a bond, intellectually and spiritually, like nothing I’ve ever seen … but sometimes, you know, you just think, God, why don’t you just get a room?!” -Roger Sargent

"not too different from falling in love”” -Carl Barat, 2008

“I’m obsessed to the point of needing to know everything. All of you…I quite love you.” -Pete Doherty, 2002

“He [Carl] was saying, ‘Well, look, what if it’s all gonna happen again?’ and I said, ‘One thing: maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but one thing that’s going to help me not fuck up again is you, and doing all that together.’ Because he means a lot… -Pete Doherty, 2009  

“…it’s a deep love. Deep love does funny things to people’ -Carl Barat, 2010

"If I’m honest, I miss having a best friend who, for all his foibles, who got me…you know, when you meet someone who gets you and you get them on the deepest level, I mean that…that’s something that I always missed about Pete.”  -Carl Barat, 2010