Top 400 Olivie Blake Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “So this is what it is to love something you cannot control, he thought. It felt precisely like terror.”

— Olivie Blake

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

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153. “Regan didn’t want to die, obviously – nothing that emergent. She just wanted something reasonably compelling; something that would make him think about how precious time was, how every moment of it should be spent at her side, the two of them together.”

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154. “I believed the universe was completely random, and that’s what eluded us. Because we all want to believe we are fundamental in some way. We are our own myths, our own legends. We give things reason. We are reasonable creatures and so everything must have its place, its purpose – but we are also egoistical creatures, and so we give ourselves reasons that don’t exist.”

— Olivie Blake

155. “It occurred to her that Aldo Damiani was probably something of a rarity himself.”

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156. “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.”

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157. “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?”

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158. “How would Caesar have made Brutus pay if he had lived?”

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

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160. “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. What a waste, and then he says aloud, JesusfuckingChrist what have you done to me? And she says, Kiss me.”

— Olivie Blake

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

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162. “He’s just also very, um – ” “Grumpy,” said Nico. “Well, I wouldn’t – ” “He’s grumpy,” Nico repeated. “Varona, I’m trying t-” “He’s grumpy,” Nico said loudly. “Maybe he’s shy,” countered Libby, unconvincingly.”

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163. “I want you to expect – no, I want you to demand,” she amended. “I want you to demand things from me, to tell me to make this work, to force me if you have to. I want you to bet on me, Aldo. I want you to make investments, I want your future.” The last part slipped out. “I want your future, Aldo. I want it for me.”

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164. “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.”

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165. “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.”

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166. “It felt unfair, unjust, that the things that had so easily been shared between them – I’m strange, no I’m strange, okay we’re both strange, nobody understands us except for us – were now hers to bear alone.”

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167. “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.”

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

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

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170. “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.”

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

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

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173. “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.”

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174. “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.”

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175. “Here, at the library, their lives would change. Here their former selves would be destroyed, like the library itself, only to be built back up again and hidden in the shadows, never to be seen except by the Caretakers, by the Alexandrians, and by the ghosts of lives uncrossed and paths untaken.”

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176. “Okay, he said, and as she dropped her attention back to her parchment, Aldo contemplated going back to live in that single second of time, when he and she had existed in perfect synchronicity.”

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177. “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.”

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

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

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180. “We study the realm of consciousness because we understand that to decide something, to weigh a cost and accept its consequences, is to forcibly alter the world in some tangible way. That is magic as true and as real as any other.”

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

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

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

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

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185. “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.”

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186. “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

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

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188. “You and me, you and me, you and me, Aldo, Aldo, Rinaldo, 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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189. “Genius is frequently a side effect of mania.”

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

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

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

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

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194. “We can’t help clinging to our origins, Callum said. The past always seems more ordered, Rhodes. It always seems clearer, more straightforward, easier to understand. We have a craving for it, that sense of simplicity, but only an idiot would ever chase the past, because our perception of it is false – it was never that the world was simple. Just that in retrospect it could be known, and therefore understood.”

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195. “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.”

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196. “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.”

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

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198. “Consumption, that’s what this is. He is being willingly eaten alive.”

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199. “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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200. “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