Alone With You in the Ether Quotes

“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

“She wanted to tell him, to teach him: Every time you love, pieces of you break off and get replaced by something you steal from someone else. It seems like it's the right shape but it's slightly different every time, so that eventually, very very quietly and over days and days and days, you are transformed into something unrecognizable, and it happens so slowly you don't even notice, like shedding scales and making new ones.
He smiled at her like: Isn't it great?
Yes, she thought, pained. Yes, it is perilously wonderful to suffer so sweetly with you.”
― 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.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Because I think you need me more than you want me, Regan, and I think maybe—” There was a dull drone in her ear, temporarily deafening. “—I think maybe that means that I should go.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Math is a difficult thing to love,” he said. “It’s precise and unforgiving, it’s evasive and it will never love me back, but I don’t have much of a choice, do I? It’s the thing that I can do that other people can’t, or that other people lack the patience for. Are there worthier things, more rewarding things? Yes, probably. But I don’t know what they are, they never showed themselves to me. Only math did.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“It’s the thing that I can do that other people can’t, or that other people lack the patience for. Are there worthier things, more rewarding things? Yes, probably. But I don’t know what they are, they never showed themselves to me. Only math did.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“One of Aldo’s considerations when it came to time was how long it took, conceptually, before things became ordinary, unspecial. People were so easily desensitized, so helplessly numbed when it came to the repetitive nature of existence.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“You’ve always understood, above everything, that what makes beauty is pain.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“So, somewhere out there, there’s a hive of lady bees killing people for vengeance instead of doing what they’re supposed to do?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“You think your dick is special, Marcus? Because it isn't, it's just a dick.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“There are no perfect circles Regan. Yes, there's one and it's this one. They fall in love because they're always in love. They know even though they don't.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Sometimes love isn’t about fixing each other; it’s about seeing the beauty in the broken pieces.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Loving you feels like knowing how to breathe underwater.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“You wouldn’t make love with him, you’d make art. Maybe that would be worth it, but still, art is tragedy. Art is loss. It’s the fleeting breath of a foregone moment, the intimacy of things undone, the summer season that passes. It’s the peeled lemon and bony fish in the corner of a Dutch still life, rotten and dead and gone. It’s him lying next to you, legs tangled with yours, only to know he’ll be a specter in your thoughts by next month, next week, ten minutes from now. This is what makes it art, Charlotte, and you’ve always understood that. You’ve always understood, above everything, that what makes beauty is pain.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether