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“She couldn't prevent the urge to know his thoughts, She wanted to lace them between her fingers, to root them in her hands, to twine them around her limbs until he'd secured her within the invisible web of his carefully ordered madness.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I like it,” he said.
“What?”
He loosened the wine from his lips. “Your brain.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“this night is stolen, I want grand larceny and this is petty theft.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“She stared at herself in the mirror and thought: My eyes are too big, everyone will know I've seen everything, they'll know I saw the universe itself. They will look at me and they'll think: This poor girl, she knows too much, she can't go back.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Empires have fallen like this, he thinks, but it only makes him want her more, makes him look at his hands and think, My god, what a waste of time doing anything else but holding her. What a waste, and then he says aloud, JesusfuckingChrist what have you done to me? And she says, Kiss me.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I am more addicted to the thought of your name on my tongue than I am to any other form of vice.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Eventually she looked down at her empty hands and thought: Damn it. Damn it, I love him. Then, after the smoke cleared, she could see nothing else.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“it is perilously wonderful to suffer so sweetly with you.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Everyone’s attractive, to be honest, even if it’s just something small, like some people have beautiful hands. I don’t know. I’m a little bit in love with everyone I meet.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“Pretty, that's what you think this is? You think that's all she's capable of? You fool, she's done the impossible. She has explained everything there is to know about the world in less than the time it took for your eyes to filly focus, and do you realize that I will spend a lifetime trying to do the same never come close? This is an opus!, this is a triumph!, this is the meaning of life and you would think the answer would be satire, but it isn't, its Truth. She tomd the Truth like you could never dream of telling it, and I pity you, that you could see the inside of your own soul and reduce it like this, so pitylessly. So carelessly.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“You wouldn't make love with him, you'd make art.”
― 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 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

“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

“You never know if happy memories are going to become sad ones. They glow and shine in the vast realms of our subconscious, making that part of our brain feel like it’s filled with glitter. We pick them up and cradle them like expensive cats, or wriggle into them like they are jumpers we’ve left to warm on a radiator. Until the day when, for one reason or another, life can suddenly make this happy memory into a sad memory instead. Good memories exist in the naivety of not knowing any better.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island, but you can’t tell me it’s not your home. Your bubble, Mr. Baker. It’s been popped. Why would you allow it to grow around you again?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?” “I suppose. But I’d rather be that way than the alternative.” “Which is?” “Not feeling anything at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“No. It’s not. Life rarely is. But we deal with it the best we can. And we allow ourselves to hope for the best. Because a life without hope isn’t a life lived at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“It's peculiar how no-words can be better than words. Silence can say more than noise, in the same way that a person's absence can occupy even more space than their presence did.”
― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

“As human beings, we seek meaning in everything. We're so good at discovering patterns that we see them where they don't exist.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“I want you to say everything, anything. I want to have your thoughts, I want to bottle them, I want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“Instead she thinks: I love him, and for a moment it doesn't matter whether he loves her back. It is enough to have known that the inside of her chest is more than a place for storage.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“He matched her distance again, their foreheads meeting like old friends; Hello, how are you, been a long time, how nice it is to be here with you.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“this is when she knows- god, she knows- that she loves him so deeply and so passionately and so devastatingly that by the time she tells him, the words will inevitably feel empty and small.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“she wanted to bear his entire sadness for him: to hurt herself doubly, just to keep it from him, and was that illness or love? Was she really so broken that she wanted to suffer to spare him, and if that was true, then had he been right all along?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether