Januaries Quotes

“Because I learned there was a new piece of me to go with every new piece I found of you, and that's wonderful.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

“You told a joke today
I asked how you decided to become the village witch
And you said "my collection of eyeballs was getting out of hand"
And then you laughed a little bit”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

“She glanced up from her cup of coffee, managing to pull a small half smile from some useless junk drawer in her mind.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

“Is sadness beauty?” “Some of it.” “And the rest?” “Gives the other bits meaning.” “The not-sadness, you mean?” “Yes.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries

“May whoever we become next always surprise us; may we look into the void and share a laugh.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

“My dormant fury arose newly unhinged somewhere around autumn.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

“I'm sorry. I wanted to be the perfect form for you, the form you deserve, but I can't hold it. Even with the monsterlove, I am still only different forms of me.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

“Oh my god, she completely forgot that one of her forms is a literal black hole. THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

“You'd think it would bond you together," she said while we were walking back to my apartment. "All of you trying not to eat too much ice cream even though you want to. You'd think that would unify you in some way."

"Actually, some people are lactose intolerant," I said.

Politely, I looked away when she started to cry.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

“... I told her that's called a spiral, though I also told her I doubted it would matter whether we were the dust mites in a giant's dream or not. Isn't our experience real even if we are not?”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

“I’ve thought about your curse a lot and I think it’s actually very important that you take care of it. Make sure you only let people in who are reverent with it. People who don’t understand magic can be a real drain on available resources, so don’t be irresponsible with your supply.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries

“It was easy to wallow in loneliness with either literature or my own thoughts, and in a lot of ways being sedentary was safer even if I was much more aware of my disgust with myself.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries

“I sometimes have the feeling I’ve seen so much variation over so many forms of existence that this particular version of me is immune to the concept of anything ever being out of place.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries

“I don’t like crying in front of people, anyway. It’s one thing to feel distaste for misery on my own behalf without suffering the compulsion to soothe myself for the benefit of other people.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries

“Some people have such verbosity of sadness, periods that lead to beautiful metamorphoses. That or they have a destructive form of sadness, little inner cyclones of it. Meanwhile I become something of a brick wall, or a used car. Less valuable each time I am injured.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries

“Maybe the truth is that I am a vessel of chaos. Touch me and I will explode.”
― Olivie Blake, Januaries