Top 400 Olivie Blake Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “He scanned her again, the effect of it intensely asexual and certainly aromantic.”

— Olivie Blake

152. “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

153. “This was just the world. You trusted people, you loved them, you offered them the dignity of your time and the intimacy of your thoughts and the fraility of your hope and they either accepted it and cared for it or they rejected it and destroyed it and in the end, none of it was up to you. This was just what you got. Heartbreak was inevitable. Disappointment assured.”

— Olivie Blake

154. “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

155. “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.”

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156. “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

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

— Olivie Blake

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Olivie Blake

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Olivie Blake

166. “We all have our own curses. Our own blessings.” Callum’s smile faltered. “We are the gods of our own universes, aren’t we? Destructive ones.”

— Olivie Blake

167. “Things were always stranger in retrospect, which was a funny little consequence of time.”

— Olivie Blake

168. “They’d had a knack for it from the beginning, a way of becoming the other’s beginning and end.”

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169. “Charlotte Regan, Aldo realized, loved change, unhealthily. She loved it like an obsession, like infatuation. With change she had an ongoing affair, and perhaps it had been neutralized for a time with pills and psychotherapy but underneath it all, the little monster that was her soul was clawing for it, and it had been Aldo who’d hauled it out again. He’d unleashed a titan, he’d freed her, fallen in love with her, and as much as he’d hoped it would relent to something manageable, it did not.”

— Olivie Blake

170. “In her experience, curiosity about a person was never a good sign. Curiosity was unspeakably worse and far more addicting than sexual attraction. Curiosity usually meant a kindling of something highly flammable, which wasn’t at all what Regan wanted from this.”

— Olivie Blake

171. “If I were going to ask someone for help, Rhodes, it would have been you.”

— Olivie Blake

172. “When Aldo spoke of Regan his voice had a tendency to change, illumination rising near his cheeks. “You should see her work,” he would say the same way someone else might have said: Come outside, come look at the stars.”

— Olivie Blake

173. “Sometimes,” she said, “when I’m with someone else, I get this feeling like I’m asleep.”

— Olivie Blake

174. “He wondered what a bee would do if it knew its life work was contributing to the ecosystems of fancy toasts. Would that be enough to compel it to stop? Doubtful.”

— Olivie Blake

175. “The presumption that she was in pieces just because she had once been broken was a dangerous one.”

— Olivie Blake

176. “He didn’t blame her for not seeing it. He blamed everyone else for letting her forget.”

— Olivie Blake

177. “All falls come with danger, Aldo, but not us. Not us, we float.”

— Olivie Blake

178. “Don’t you know we belong together? It’s inevitable.”

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179. “The world loved to take a beautiful woman and exclaim at the charm of her single imperfection.”

— Olivie Blake

180. “She’d have to be measured infinitely in order to be calculated, which no one could ever do.”

— Olivie Blake

181. “What was being human except to crave things unreasonably?”

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182. “This is what it looks like to love you; it looks like an abyss, but it isn’t, do you understand? All falls come with danger, Aldo, but not us. Not us, we float.”

— Olivie Blake

183. “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

184. “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

185. “He said everything with precisely the same degree of unambiguous fact that he’d used to address everything else.”

— Olivie Blake

186. “She did that, love him invasively, exploring him like the depths of the sea.”

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187. “Dimitri Fedorov, I already gave you my useless heart. Now, have everything else that matters. Have my loyalty, my right hand. Have everything that was once my mother’s and give me everything you once swore to Koschei. Give me all of you, take everything of me, and let’s see who stands against us then.”

— Olivie Blake

188. “I see. And what can I do for you, Professor?” “Die,” she said. “Slowly. Painfully.” “Understandable,” said Atlas.”

— Olivie Blake

189. “Yes it does, he doesn’t want to be the person she hides from, he wants to be the person she hides with. These are distinct, doesn’t she realize? Does she have any idea how difficult he finds it to exist with other people? And then here she is, this mystery, this puzzle, does she even know how much he loves her unpredictability, her twists and turns? She thinks her brain is some sort of problem? Fine, good, he loves problems.”

— Olivie Blake

190. “Aldo was similarly single-minded, even if he was many-thoughted.”

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191. “Don’t pretend you’ve earned the right to believe I’m heartless, when you’re the one who can’t make up your mind.”

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192. “Libby had known that about Ezra, the way he tended to want to save her from her anxieties instead of simply listening when she spoke. He wanted her to want to be rescued, and she had thought the occasional decision to indulge him was just something people did in relationships. Male ego or whatever. Things good girlfriends did in order to keep the peace.”

— Olivie Blake

193. “Commitment is fine,” he said. “Theoretically, anyway. But I find I have some difficulty understanding what other people want from me.”

— Olivie Blake

194. “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

195. “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

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

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

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198. “Ambition was such a dirty word, so tainted, but she had it.”

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

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200. “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