Top 400 Olivie Blake Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Commitment is fine,” he said. “Theoretically, anyway. But I find I have some difficulty understanding what other people want from me.”

— Olivie Blake

152. “For what it’s worth,” he said, clapping a hand on Tristan’s shoulder, “the parts of you that you seem to loathe are hardly abhorrent at all.”

— Olivie Blake

153. “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

154. “She made devastation look like riches, like jewels.”

— Olivie Blake

155. “The past is nothing. We are everything.”

— Olivie Blake

156. “Genius is frequently a side effect of mania.”

— Olivie Blake

157. “I think you can be physically involved with someone before you need them,” he said slowly. “And I think you can need them before you love them.”

— Olivie Blake

158. “If not for her, Nico might not have noticed most of the things he did, and probably vice versa. A uniquely upsetting curse, really, how little he knew how to exist when she wasn’t there.”

— Olivie Blake

159. “Art is something we do to feel human, not because we are.”

— Olivie Blake

160. “Theoretically, men are a disaster. As a concept, I unequivocally reject them.”

— Olivie Blake

161. “Nobody asked for any of this. What they’re born into. We just get what we get and that’s a tragedy in itself. Everybody’s got one.”

— Olivie Blake

162. “I’m not trying to predict you. I’m trying to understand you.”

— Olivie Blake

163. “You don’t use your magic to walk up the stairs but you defy gravity all the same, don’t you?”

— Olivie Blake

164. “I hate boring little anxieties, like Rhodes’s. People who never exceed their shape because they’re too busy wondering why people don’t like them, or who they’re meant to be, or why they aren’t loved, or –.”

— Olivie Blake

165. “More interesting than the game is always the players, you know.”

— Olivie Blake

166. “Cravings were wishes that could be satisfied, but compulsions were needs that must be met.”

— Olivie Blake

167. “Because humans were idiots who turned the elements of life into a weapon.”

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168. “If there was one thing Regan would willingly say about herself, it was that she was an ornament, a novelty, a party trick. She was the center of attention when she wished to be, quick-witted and charming and impeccably dressed, but those types of girls grew dull when there were no eccentricities or blemishes. The world loved to take a beautiful woman and exclaim at the charm of her single imperfection.”

— Olivie Blake

169. “Happiness, contentment, they are dull but persuasive lures. A rosy disposition only means you miss what’s lurking in the trees.”

— Olivie Blake

170. “All men can love a forbidden thing, generally speaking, and in most cases knowledge is precisely that; lost knowledge even more so.”

— Olivie Blake

171. “They had shared something that couldn’t be undone-something that had followed them around, joining them even in their absences form each other. History did that to people. Proximity. Love in some cases, hatred in others. The specific kind of intimacy that meant that every enemy was once a friend.”

— Olivie Blake

172. “The truest truths: Mortal lifetimes were short, inconsequential. Convictions were death sentences. Money couldn’t buy happiness, but nothing could buy happiness, so at least money could buy everything else. In terms of finding satisfaction, all a person was capable of controlling was himself.”

— Olivie Blake

173. “I’ve got you, Rhodes. From here on, I swear.”

— Olivie Blake

174. “The thing about pills, Regan wanted to say to the doctor who had clearly never taken any, was that the ups and downs still happened; they were just different now, contained within brackets of limitation. 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.”

— Olivie Blake

175. “Is not the worst tyranny that which perceives itself to be noble?”

— Olivie Blake

176. “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

177. “People think they have to be born one way, with resilience built in or some incapacity to burn or whatever. Either you are or you aren’t, that sort of thing. Like some people naturally want things and others want nothing, but it’s not true. You can be taught to want. You can be taught to crave. And you can also learn to starve.”

— Olivie Blake

178. “Sarcasm,” she remarked, “is a dead form of wit.”

— Olivie Blake

179. “Because I know he’ll sit for me. Because I know he won’t mock me, won’t suffocate me, won’t kill this 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

180. “The glow from the window illuminated pieces of their silhouettes, her right side and his left. 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

181. “They have plenty of other times for conversations, he says, and that is when she knows- god, she knows- that she loves him so deeply and so passionately and so devastatingly that by the time that she tells him, the words will inevitably feel empty and small.”

— Olivie Blake

182. “Can you strike a deal with the devil if it means getting what you want?”

— Olivie Blake

183. “All the monotony of being mortal is in the trying-to-live bits before you realize the whole thing is your life.”

— Olivie Blake

184. “She was afraid, always, except when she was proving herself.”

— Olivie Blake

185. “People were so easily desensitized, so helplessly numbed when it came to the repetitive nature of existence.”

— Olivie Blake

186. “He scanned her again, the effect of it intensely asexual and certainly aromantic.”

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187. “She’d given him arrows and he’d shot, and now parts of her were gaping holes, flayed and filleted and left behind as open wounds.”

— Olivie Blake

188. “She proved herself alive by proving this day had never been lived before, that this thing had never been felt or never tasted or never wanted, and now, because it existed, things were different; changed.”

— Olivie Blake

189. “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

190. “What did he think love was – pain? Was that all anyone believed love to be? That if it didn’t hurt, if no one pined, then it was as if it did not exist and had never existed – a tree brought down in the forest with no one to hear it fall?”

— Olivie Blake

191. “You can never truly know a culture until you’ve been bitten by one of its myths.”

— Olivie Blake

192. “Many people incorrectly assume time to be a steady incline, a measured arc of growth and progress, but when history is written by the victors the narrative can often misrepresent that shape.”

— Olivie Blake

193. “She couldn’t look away from his face, which did not say: What’s wrong with you? but instead, said: Hi. Hello. Nice to meet you.”

— Olivie Blake

194. “He thinks of all the other versions of himself making love to all the other versions of her and resolves to pluck them out of their alternate realities, out of their alternate spaces and times, to place them in this one.”

— Olivie Blake

195. “When one ecosystem fails, nature makes a new one. That’s how the species survives.”

— Olivie Blake

196. “It was intimate because it was not. It was religious because it was not. It was beautiful because, at the heart of it, it was twisted and soulless and ugly, and therefore it mirrored something masochistic in Regan herself.”

— Olivie Blake

197. “You’ve been running a long time,” he murmured to her, brushing a loose curl from her cheek. “Poor thing.” He pulled her into an embrace, feeling the low swell of her misery greet him like a wave inside his chest. “You’ve been running for your life since the moment you were born.”

— Olivie Blake

198. “Tending to every whim made others unnecessarily combative, mistrustful. They preferred the reassurance of customs, little traditions, the more inconsequential the better. Breakfast in the morning, supper at the sound of the gong. It soothed them, normality.”

— Olivie Blake

199. “The problem with being a smart girl was being naturally curious.”

— Olivie Blake

200. “People always craved power – that was a constant of humanity, a truer rule than any law of physics. If they weren’t given power, they took it. And however lofty and moral their foundational creed, people historically did not choose to give it away.”

— Olivie Blake