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“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

“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

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

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