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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Time will cease, disease will fester, and death will die.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”
― Georgia O'Keefe

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I'd keep your beauty timeless.
like a flower pressed in a book, yes
I wouldn't let it fade
Folded in the chapters of my mind”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“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

“This was it, the chronic condition—the only meaning Parisa had left in life. It wasn’t a secret society, it wasn’t an ancient library, it wasn’t an experiment that had taken two decades to design, it was waking up every fucking morning and deciding to keep going. The tiny, unceremonious, incomparable mdiracle of making it through another goddamn day. The knowledge that life was mean and it was exacting. It was cruel and it was cursed; it was recalcitrant and precious. It was always ending. But it did not have to be earned.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“Left to their own devices, humans will inevitably care for one another at great detriment to themselves. Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be compelled to save it. It is not one side or the other. Both are true. Flip the coin and see where it lands.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“What you’re willing to accept doesn’t change what I’m willing to give.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“Callum would simply have to look Tristan in the eye and say, as un-pathetically as possible, you don't have to choose me. Just know that it won't stop me from choosing you.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“Is this actually possible?” Gideon asked.
Nico made a face that meant maybe, I don’t know, I’m bored. “Does it matter?"
A valid question. Either yes, it mattered very much, or no, it didn’t matter at all, and also nothing really mattered, and who was to say what was actually real aside from the beat of his heart in his chest?”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“Because if Parisa was a person who’d learned to fight for herself, who’d chosen satisfaction over compromise and power over morality—if she was a person with blood on her hands—it was because she’d had to be. Because this world demanded it. Because she’d needed protection that no one but herself had ever been willing to provide. Because this was a world that would stare at her breasts and still count her for less if she let it; a world that would gladly tell her what she was worth and what she wasn’t.
So what mattered about this world? Only that she remained the most dangerous thing in it.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“Maybe her only purpose was to survive, which was fucking difficult, and so maybe that was enough.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“This was a world where stolen knowledge could stay stolen, because plenty of knowledge that came freely remained unscrutinized every day.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus