la fede (taylor's version)

“Do you think they know what it means to love?" his projection-self mused aloud to him. "That it isn't the simple joy of fondness, I mean. In fact it's violent, destructive. It means to cut the heart out of your chest and give it to someone else.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“We can’t help clinging to our origins, Callum said. The past always seems more ordered, Rhodes. It always seems clearer, more straightforward, easier to understand. We have a craving for it, that sense of simplicity, but only an idiot would ever chase the past, because our perception of it is false—it was never that the world was simple. Just that in retrospect it could be known, and therefore understood.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“To know what people really are and not destroy them is savagely remarkable. She has exceptional restraint.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“The last-page ache. The deep breath in after you’ve set the book aside.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers