Alone With You in the Ether Quotes

“This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“it was less a question of when everything had happened and more a surrendering to when there had been no turning back.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“It reminded her of a time when people still committed their violence eye to eye, which gave her a paradoxical sense of gratification.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“With the way moonlight fell over them it seemed to him that they were each one half of a person, divided in two, each fraction left to be the other's reflection.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“It's obvious, don't you see it, can't you hear it? His name is written on my skin, he scarred me. I've changed my entire shape for having fit within the enormity of his thoughts, and now the only words I know are lines and color.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“All falls come with danger, Aldo, but not us. Not us, we float. (p. 255)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“She shaped her missing him into something far less ugly than it was. (p. 208)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“He doesn't want to be the person she hides from, he wants to be the person she hides with. (p. 177)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Can you love my brain even when it's small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? (p. 174)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Her hands wander, when they express their disinterest in being empty, when they fill themselves with him. (p. 169)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“You wanted more from me than I am even worth. (p. 137)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Will it be worth it, just for his hands on your skin? Will it be worth him slipping through your fingers, bleeding through the cracks in your constitution, just to be reminded you're the kind of person people leave? Maybe it will, because look at his mouth, look at the shape if makes when his eyes are on you. 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. (p. 127)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Will it be worth it, just for his hands on your skin? Will it be worth him slipping through your fingers, bleeding through the cracks in your constitution, just to be reminded you're the kind of person people leave? (p. 127)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Sometimes it's like I'm there, but not really. Not fully. Like part of me is going to wake up a century later and everything will just be totally unidentifiable. (p. 110)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“L'appel du vide, the call of the void. (p. 106)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Don't go, just stay.
Settle over me like the tide, cover me like a blanket, wrap around me like the sun.
Don't go, don't go, don't go. (p. 105)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“His sweetness was always moderately bitter. His candor was never without some bite. (p. 100)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“The prayer ended.
He didn't let go. (p.82)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I'll just stay until the universe tells me to leave. (p.70)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“If you want to identify an emotion, or a sensation, then there is nothing more precise than art. (p.60)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. (p. 32)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Deities themselves had changed over time, but the act of devotion had not. (p. 3)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Tell your mind to be kind to you today (p. 11)”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“How was he feeling? He had been bad before. He would be bad again. It would cycle and fluctuate the same way the weather would. It would rain in two weeks he thought.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“How was he feeling? He had been bad before. He would be bad again. It would cycle and fluctuate the same way the weather would. It would rain in two weeks, he thought.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“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

“Green in the light of an armory. Green against the backdrop of a church. Green over drinks, over cake, over trivialities. Green in his reflection, staring back at her, his fingers penitently wrapped around her calf.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“She could pry apart his ribs and leave him there, gutted, doe eyes wide with I didn’t think it’d be so wet.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“That I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Cravings were wishes that could be satisfied, but compulsions were needs that must be met”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether