Alone With You in the Ether Quotes

“to be alone without wonder or curiosity is to chip away any possible value we might discover in existing”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Boys get to have sex just as it is, just sex. Girls are taught fairy tales, they're taught happily ever after. they're taught sex as a consequence of marriage. Imagine seeing the world that way, as if sex isn't a right but a rung on a ladder. We have to withhold it, can you imagine that? Because its so brainless and simple that if men get it too easily, they'll just leave.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“As pessoas achavam que o vício era uma vontade, mas a diferença era a seguinte: vontades eram desejos possíveis de satisfazer, ao passo que compulsões eram necessidades que precisavam ser atendidas.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I don’t really have a personality conducive to long-term relationships.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Yes it does, he doesn’t want to be the person she hides from, he wants to be the person she hides with.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Because,” she said. Because I know he’ll sit for me. Because I know he won’t mock me, won’t suffocate me, won’t kill this fragile little thing I’ve found, this fledgling breath I’ve taken. Because he will know what it means, because he asked me to, because he asked. Because he’s the thing I can’t unsee. Because I don’t know if I can get him right without looking, without proof, but also because I need to know, because I’ve already tried. Because either this is how everything changes, or this is how it ends.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Regan felt some second self slip out from the cavity of her chest to revel in it,”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“But you’re willingly losing sleep over it,” she noted. “I…” It was difficult to explain. “Yes, because—” “Because if you don’t have something to figure out, then you have no reason to keep going?” Or maybe it wasn’t that difficult to explain. “Yeah,” he said. “Basically.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“She just found the whole thing very strange, and he’d stuck in her brain a little bit, embedding himself there like a thorn. Like something on the tip of her tongue or hovering just at the edge of her periphery. She half expected him to be inside every room she entered, or to be the footsteps just behind her on every set of stairs.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“If she were to paint him, she thought, nobody would even believe her.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“She often thought of him as an accessory that matched with everything; some sort of magical mood ring that adapted to whatever persona she had currently filled.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Everything leading to everything else, following the same patterns if you happened to look closely enough.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“What a mystery, her future self! The possibilities were fascinatingly mundane and yet, somehow, perfectly endless, which was close enough to elation itself.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Having turned a corner from where she’d been, she would come to recognize that it was less a question of when everything had happened and more a surrendering to when there had been no turning back. It was always a matter of time in the end, just as it had been in the beginning.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“was it because she had been vacant where he was vacant, and therefore both would inevitably seek to be filled?”
― 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?” “Yes,” Aldo confirmed, “probably.” “That’s—” Encouraging. Invigorating, even. Temporarily mesmerizing. “Interesting.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“THE NARRATOR: Regan believes there are two ways to manipulate a man: either to let him pursue you or to let him pursue you in a way that makes him feel he’s the pursuit. Marc is the latter, and he loves her the same way she loves art, which Regan considers a pleasing form of irony. 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

“To you, my fellow mortals with your gorgeous little fractures: Your crazy is your magic. Your wildness is what makes you. Resilience is your talent. Burn, but don’t burn out.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“It isn’t constancy that keeps us alive, it’s the”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Isn’t that the point? Isn’t that the success of a rebellion, knowing what people want, so to vehemently deny what others so desperately desire?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I love your brain. She doesn’t know what to deal with first, the use of “love” or the fact that it isn’t what she was expecting, or the idea that anyone can possibly think fondly of her brain when she has put almost no effort into molding it. Her body, that’s easy to love, and her personality, whichever version it is, is specially crafted for every occasion.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“l'appel du vide" (the call of the void)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story

“what, he asks, is The Truth? That she will keep turning corners until she finds him.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Science without faith is crippled,”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Imagine seeing the world that way, as if sex isn’t a right but a rung on a ladder.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“miracles are not unheard of. But the body cannot come back, it cannot rebuild itself. It cannot suffer a loss and become what it was before, no, it doesn’t work that way.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“So when people say we’re alone in the ether…?” “Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Do you understand, do you know what you hold in your hands, do you know how readily it breaks? “I”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“Some inner lawlessness was still there, screeching for a higher high and clawing for a lower low, but ultimately the pills were loose restraints, a method of numbly shrinking. Every time a pill sat in Regan’s palm she suffered some new strangulation; a faint memory of some distant need to force her heart to race. She’d crave a senseless rage, a dried-up sob, a psychotic joy, but find only pulse after pulse of nothing. Without the volatility of her extremes, what was she? “Managed,” she’d said.)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“he felt certain, smelled permanent, sounded firm.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether