Gifted & Talented Quotes

“Dummies, every single one of us. The gifted ones most of all.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“I told myself that I would exist wholly in this moment, and this one, and this one, and thus over time I would simply change. I would be grounded. I would be better. I would hate myself less, or at least less often.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“Participation in capitalism is its own form of doom— it can only end pointlessly no matter what you do, we all go into the ground.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“The way she only inhabited the person she thought of as herself if she was feeling someone else’s pain. Their grief. Their anger. Their debilitating joy. Their delusory love. Their cruel and unrelenting fate. How beautifully she could carry the suffering of others, wearing their misery so she didn’t have to acknowledge her own...Translating the human experience which was itself full of badness, so that she never had to hold her own badness for too long.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“People are mostly very easy to love,” he said. “I don’t find it difficult.”
“Even me?” She wondered if she even wanted to hear that answer.
“Oh, Meredith, it is so fucking easy to love you. The hard stuff with you is the being loved part.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“She’d always liked that she could read him so plainly, while everyone else was such a chore to interpret. She was constantly behaving like a person who didn’t actually speak English—listening, translating, thinking, then translating again to try to say something back in a language the other person understood. Exhausting. More often than not she disregarded the effort altogether, just as she did now.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“I've learned to expect the least out of the people I thought the highest of.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“This is the top, and there’s no other way to make it. It might be lonely once you get here, but nobody chooses it for the company. They choose it for the view.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“I didn’t want happiness, for fuck’s sake—I wanted an A!”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“I've learned to expect the lease out of the people I though the highest of.”
― olivie blake, Gifted & Talented

“She did not like it, Meredith decided, when her brother died.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“The line between magic and science is fuzzy to begin with [...]”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“I think your dad probably loved you,” I said. “But even if he didn’t, you can’t control how he felt. You can only control how you feel, what you accept. So you can accept that he was really inept at his most important job, and you can hate him for that if you want. It doesn’t matter, he’s dead. But you could also just decide you don’t need it—his approval or whatever. And you can keep on living, because you have to do that anyway.” I shrugged. “You’re the only one left, so you get to decide.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented