Top 400 Olivie Blake Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “My daughters are diamonds, as Yaga so often said. Nothing is more beautiful. Nothing shines brighter. And most importantly, nothing will break them.”

— Olivie Blake

2. “In Callum’s mind, human history was interesting because of humans, not science. Because humans were idiots who turned the elements of life into a weapon.”

— Olivie Blake

3. “All the knowledge the world possessed existed at their fingertips, and all they had to do in return was continue to nurture it, to make it grow.”

— Olivie Blake

4. “I will always love you, I will love you until the day I die – and if you’re the one to kill me, then by all means, you should know without a trace of doubt you will not have turned me away. I will have spent the final beat of my heart loving you, just as I always have. Only you, Masha. Only you, forever, I promise.”

— Olivie Blake

5. “Nobody wants you, nobody has ever wanted you, you’re irresponsible with the love of others and so they lose interest in you, they always will.”

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6. “I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed.”

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7. “Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?”

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8. “It’s you and me alone in the ether and you don’t even know it, you don’t even care, but still you are tied to this, and to me, and so be it, really.”

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9. “Jesus, he thinks, something is wrong with us, we are unwell, no one has ever felt any of this without destruction. Empires have fallen like this, he thinks, but it only makes him want her more, makes him look at his hands and think, My god, what a waste of time doing anything else but holding her.”

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10. “Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.”

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11. “No one here is good. Knowledge is carnage. You can’t have it without sacrifice.”

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12. “When you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but isn’t – it’s ignorance falling away. Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.”

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13. “You are brilliant. Tell your mind to be kind to you today.”

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14. “That to love a person was to forfeit the need to place limits on them, and therefore to love was to exist in a constant, paralyzing threat.”

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15. “You are not accustomed to being desired, are you?” Callum prompted. Before Tristan could manage his surely uncomfortable reply, Callum clarified, “As a friend, I mean. As a person.” A pause. “As anything.”

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16. “It frustrated him immensely that he would never be able to prove that time didn’t stop when she met his eye. Though, he reminded himself, maybe if he committed it to memory then he could return to it in another shape, with better understanding.”

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17. “The day you are not a fire,” he said, “is the day the earth will fall still for me.”

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18. “Don’t envy me, Reina,” she advised softly, turning to say it in Reina’s ear. “Fear me.”

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19. “She stared at herself in the mirror and thought: My eyes are too big, everyone will know I’ve seen everything, they’ll know I saw the universe itself. They will look at me and they’ll think: This poor girl, she knows too much, she can’t go back.”

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20. “If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.”

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21. “There is nothing more telling about a person’s character than the silent wishes they keep to themselves, buried in the little nooks and crannies of their hearts.”

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22. “So when people say were alone in the ether?” “Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion.”

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23. “Because the problem with knowledge, Miss Rhodes, is its inexhaustible craving. The more of it you have, the less you feel you know,” said Atlas. “Thus, men often go mad in search of it.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “The trouble with knowledge, the idiosyncrasy of its particular addiction, was that it was not the same as other types of vice. Because knowledge was not chemical, was not physical or hormonal or easily within reach, someone given a taste of omniscience could never be satisfied by the contents of a bare reality without it.”

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26. “There is no fate so final as betrayal. Trust, once dead, cannot be resurrected.”

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27. “Things are so much sweeter when they have an ending; things are so much more painful when they can be ripped away.”

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28. “A flaw of humanity: the compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.”

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29. “Because nobody will deny you anything the moment you stop denying yourself. Who could possibly have sovereignty greater than yours?” she asked, insistent. “Who on earth could have the right to refuse you, if you do not permit it? If this isn’t the way, Sasha, then find another one.”

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30. “The moment you let yourself love, Reina Mori, it will be the death of you. I promise you that.”

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31. “I am more addicted to the thought of your name on my tongue than I am to any other form of vice.”

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32. “Money couldn’t buy happiness, but nothing could buy happiness, so at least money could buy everything else.”

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33. “There was nothing worse than being predictable. Nothing smaller than feeling ordinary. Nothing more disappointing than being reminded she was both.”

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34. “Beware the man who faces you unarmed. If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon.”

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35. “Hate and love were so very similar. Both were intestinal, visceral. Both left scars, vestiges of pain. Hate could not be born from a place of indifference. Hate was only born from opposite sides of the same coin.”

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36. “Libby was a hero. Parisa was a villain. Their goals were overarching, appositional. Nico and Reina were so impartial and self-interested as to be wholly negligible. Tristian was a soldier, he would follow where he was most persuasively led. It was Callum who was an assassin.”

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37. “It isn’t constancy that keeps us alive, it’s the progression we use to move us.”

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38. “That was the distasteful thing about villains, really. Not the manner in which they went about their business, which was certainly gruesome and morally corrupt, but the fact that they desired things so intensely.”

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39. “Yes, how perilously wonderful to suffer so sweetly with you.”

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40. “One thing at a time. Murder first and then scholarly pursuits.”

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41. “The world was mostly entropy and chaos; magic, then, was order, because it was control.”

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42. “Bye,′ said his mouth, and then he was gone.”

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43. “The Libby Rhodes that Tristan knew was a collection of imperfections, a constellation of absentminded marks. Of things she tried to meticulously to hide, but never from him.”

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44. “He thinks: The Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.”

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45. “Do you think they know what it means to love?” his projection-self mused aloud to him. “That it isn’t the simple joy of fondness, I mean. In fact it’s violent, destructive. It means to cut the heart out of your chest and give it to someone else.”

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46. “If power is a thing to be had, it must be capable of possession. But power is not any discrete size or weight. Power is continuous. Power is parabolic. Say you are given some power, which then increases your capacity to accumulate more power. Your capacity for power increases exponentially in relation to the actual power you have gained. Thus, to gain power is to be increasingly powerless. If the more power one has, the less one has, then is it the thing or are you?”

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47. “Funny how that worked; the innocent fragility of being human. There were so many ways to break and so few of them heroic or noble.”

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48. “Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too.”

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49. “We are the gods of our own universes, aren’t we? Destructive ones.”

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50. “Karma was routinely misrepresented as the scales of justice when really, it was a matter of eternal continuity.”

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