“The problem with knowledge, is its inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know”
―
Olivie Blake,
The Atlas Six
“Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“they were binary stars, trapped in each other’s gravitational field and easily diminished without the other’s opposing force” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“The moral of this story is:Beware the man who faces you unarmed.If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“A flaw of humanity,” said Parisa, shrugging. “The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“The day you are not a fire,” he said, “is the day the earth will fall still for me.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“We are the gods of our own universes, aren't we? Destructive ones.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“If not for her, Nico might not have noticed most of the things he did, and probably vice versa. A uniquely upsetting curse, really, how little he knew how to exist when she wasn’t there.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“Knowledge is carnage. You can’t have it without sacrifice.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“You are brilliant. Tell your mind to be kind to you today.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“I know exactly what shape she takes up in the universe,' he pleaded in explanation. 'If anyone can recognize her, it's me.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“we are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal—that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“Depending who viewed it, Persephone had either been stolen or she had run from Demeter. Either way, she made herself queen.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“When you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but isn’t—it’s ignorance falling away. Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“they were binary stars, trapped in each other’s gravitational field and easily diminished without the other’s opposing force” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“The moral of this story is:Beware the man who faces you unarmed.If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“A flaw of humanity,” said Parisa, shrugging. “The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“The day you are not a fire,” he said, “is the day the earth will fall still for me.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“We are the gods of our own universes, aren't we? Destructive ones.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“If not for her, Nico might not have noticed most of the things he did, and probably vice versa. A uniquely upsetting curse, really, how little he knew how to exist when she wasn’t there.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“Knowledge is carnage. You can’t have it without sacrifice.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“You are brilliant. Tell your mind to be kind to you today.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“I know exactly what shape she takes up in the universe,' he pleaded in explanation. 'If anyone can recognize her, it's me.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“we are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal—that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
“Depending who viewed it, Persephone had either been stolen or she had run from Demeter. Either way, she made herself queen.” ― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six
“When you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but isn’t—it’s ignorance falling away. Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.” ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
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