Alone With You in the Ether Quotes

“people want to be romantic about everything, they want to give names to the stars, they want to tell stories. Love is a story, that’s all, until she fights with him for the first time.
The first time they fight, she knows she loves him because she has never been worth the fight before”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I am more addicted to the thought of your name on my tongue than I am to any other form of vice. The thought of having you is more dangerous than any cocktail of drugs, the idea of belonging to you endlessly destructive.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I think,” he said, “that the inside of your head must require a specific set of keys.”
“A whole set of them?”
“Oh, almost definitely,” he replied. “I think that, for someone to get close to you, you must have to give them one key at a time. And even then, only one level can be opened at once.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“There was nothing worse than being predictable. Nothing smaller than feeling ordinary.
Nothing more disappointing than being reminded she was both.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Because even when you know everything about how a piece is made, you’re still only seeing the surface.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“People were always thinking about what to do next. Other people were always planning their futures, moving ahead, and only Regan seemed to notice how the whole thing was just moving in circles.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Did it matter where it started, and would it matter where it would end? Either yes, it mattered very much, because everything was a consequence of something and therefore what became of them was somehow predetermined, or no, it did not matter at all, because beginnings and endings were not as important as the moments that could have happened or the outcomes that might have been”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Besides, if we fuck it up, you can just go back in time and fix it, can’t you? Promise me that, Aldo. If we fuck this up and it goes badly, then okay fine, you’ll go back in time and make sure we never meet. Okay?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“It isn't constancy that keeps us alive, it's the progression we use to move us. Because everything is always the same until, very suddenly, it isn't.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“The world loved to take a beautiful woman and exclaim at the charm of her single imperfection.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“She seemed to disapprove, "You think there's no precision to art?"
"Certainly not to Impressionism," he said, which he felt was obvious.
"Only if you're looking for the truth in an object," she said. "But if you want to identify an emotion, or a sensation, then there is nothing more precise than art.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“That she will keep turning corners until she finds him.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“All falls come with danger, Aldo, but not us. Not us, we float.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“She'd take another hit, leaning her cheek against his shoulder, and he'd thought with a sudden, sparkling clarity: Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“He'd say: I came to look at art, to marvel at something, and here you are and so I will.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I want to have your thoughts, I want to bottle them, I want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Okay, he said, and as she dropped her attention back to her parchment, Aldo contemplated going back to live in that single second of time, when he and she had existed in perfect synchronicity.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“You and me, you-and-me, you and me, my heart will burn a hole through my chest until I know, and I am not done. I can't be done yet, this cannot be the ending.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“You and me, you and me, you and me, Aldo, Aldo, Rinaldo, I am more addicted to the thought of your name on my tongue than I am to any other form of vice.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“The dark tips of her nails traveled the shape of his upper lip, curving with i, and in another version of this precise moment, he said, Regan, come closer, let's see what happens, let's see how the stars shine on your skin.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“I want to see what you see, he said. How will I do that if I never observe you in your natural habitat?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“I want to see what you see,' he said. "How will I do that if I never observe you in your natural habitat?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Because you and I, we are so different, aren't we, and yet we are more like each other than the rest of the world is like us, for that I bless you, I condemn you, I sanctify you, I sustain you.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“This was a life of no expectations, which was the safest kind of life.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“He didn't blame her for not seeing it. He blamed everyone else for letting her forget.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Without the volatility of her extremes, what was she?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Do you prefer ignorance?" "I should, probably," she admitted. "Ignorance really does seem to be bliss." That, however, he did seem to take issue with. "I think I'd rather be informed than blissful." "So you'd rather have knowledge than happiness?" He thought about it. "Yes," he concluded, and then hesitated. 'Sometimes," he began slowly, "doesn't happiness seem... fake? Like it might be something someone invented. An impossible goal we'll never reach," he clarified, "just to keep us all quiet." "Almost certainly," she agreed.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Either it was everything to know the whole story, to look back and see the shape of it while standing along its periphery, or it was nothing, because things in their entirety were less fragile and therefore less beautiful than the pieces within the frame.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“He didn’t blame her for not seeing it. He blamed everyone else for letting her forget.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Later she will forget what the argument is even about, only that it happened, and most importantly that when she said ???, he said !!!, and did not dismiss it. He didn’t say, Regan, do you really want to do this now? Regan, I’m tired, let’s not. Regan, go to bed, it’s late and you’re arguing just to argue. He doesn’t do any of that, instead he !!s when she ??s and when she !!s he ??s, and she should be annoyed, she knows. She should be irritated or tired, the way people always are with her, but she isn’t. Instead she thinks: I love him, and for a moment it doesn’t matter whether he loves her back. It is enough to have known that the inside of her chest is more than a place for storage.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether