Top 400 Olivie Blake Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Consumption, that’s what this is. He is being willingly eaten alive.”

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252. “He felt confident that there would be a moment when all the disjointed parts that made Charlotte Regan so incomprehensible to him would form a recognizable shape, and then he would understand the basis of the problem.”

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253. “Maybe he’d known it the moment she’d set eyes on him, in some manner of speaking, because it was the first, the only time Tom Parker had even been witnessed. and it was easier to be cruel than it was to be seen.”

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254. “Men, conceptually, are canceled,” Libby said to her knees. “This Society? Founded by men, I guarantee it. Kill someone for initiation? A man’s idea. Totally male.”

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255. “Life was, for Regan, a cycle of arriving and leaving, passing through a revolving door. When she left, which she always did, she left quietly; not even a gust of wind but a little breeze, hardly a disturbance at all.”

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256. “Bees are for you.”

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257. “Then, for the first time in three years, four months, and fifteen days, Charlotte Regan began to paint.”

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258. “That was how all of science worked, anyway. They were all pieces of some other eventual thing. The atom was part of the atomic bomb. Cataclysm, carnage, world wars, subprime mortgage lending, bank bailouts. In Callum’s mind, human history was interesting because of humans, not science.”

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259. “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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260. “I don’t think we’re really capable of loving the things our parents love.”

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261. “He planned to stop there, but for whatever reason – perhaps because talking to a cat was its own form of meditation – he kept going.”

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262. “Part of Regan irrationally resented the girl for not knowing that Aldo Damiani was closest to handsome when he was talking about bees.”

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263. “Lives are meant to be taken back, not saved.”

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264. “Nothing anyone sees is real; only how they perceive it.”

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265. “Oh, it comforts him, really, not that he’ll ever admit it. Knowing the truth of my sordid nature only confirms Tristan’s deepest suspicions about humanity,” Parisa replied to Libby’s inner thoughts, catching her sidelong glance. “I’m confident Tristan could be stabbed mid-climax and still find the strength to groan out ‘I was right’ before succumbing to the cavernous embrace of death.”

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

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267. “The freedom of endless choices wasn’t meant for human minds.”

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268. “From somewhere in his mind’s periphery he caught the vestiges of a very Rhodesian sigh – Varona, honestly, like the proverbial chord that David played to annoy the Lord.”

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269. “He was definitely doing math, and she reveled in her possession of it; in being the instrument to channel his thoughts.”

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270. “Maybe after a lifetime of being useless, Tristan simply wanted to be used.”

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271. “Those eyes in real life were weapons, or possibly anti-weapons. They had kept her out of prison, he was sure of it. Wide-set and oversized and almond-shaped, little picture-boxes of innocence. Frames that made a mockery of everything concealed within.”

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272. “Aldo was not a ‘right now’ sort of person.”

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273. “People were always thinking about what to do next. Other people were always planning their futures, moving ahead, and only Regan seemed to notice how the whole thing was just moving in circles.”

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274. “So be it. This is what it means to live.”

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275. “I bet you’ve never gone along with someone else’s idea in your life.”

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276. “You have a problem,” Parisa observed, arching a brow. “Nonsense. I have a hobby,” said Callum. “It’s everyone else who has a problem.”

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277. “Why didn’t you let me choose you?” he asked hoarsely. “I would have gone to you, Masha, if you’d asked. You would’ve only had to ask, and I would have chosen you over everything.”

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278. “It was at moments like this, high enough to inhale the promise of risk, that the whittled lines of city streets brought out his lingering melancholy; that l’appel du vide, the call of the void.”

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279. “How fragile the craving, he thought, and how delicate it was. How easy it would be to snap it between his fingers, to crush it between his palms. How effortlessly the wanting turned into the franticness of taking, and how very, very easy it was to take.”

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280. “Either it was everything to know the whole story, to look back and see the shape of it while standing along its periphery; or it was nothing, because things in their entirety were less fragile and therefore less beautiful than the pieces within the frame.”

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281. “She didn’t feel whole with Aldo inside her. Instead, she felt splintered; like she became, in his hands, an infinite number of pieces, an entire infinity herself. Like she and eternity and omnipotence were the same, or like omniscience could be equated to the sound of his ragged breath in her ear. She wanted him to mess her up, deplete her, to deliver her to something lesser, something baser. Something less inclined to rational thought, and instead diminished only to sensations.”

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282. “You need to be loved, you need someone to believe you’re perfect, you hate being reminded you have flaws.”

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283. “I cry when it rains, I pick fights sometimes, I don’t know why. I look at the sky and feel this inexplicable sense of dread. I’m afraid that everything will end; are you ever afraid like that?”

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284. “Parisa immersed herself in the scrolls from the Islamic golden age, nipping at a half-formed hunch and uncovering that the Arabic astronomer Ibn al-Haytham had observed about optical illusions the same thing Parisa had observed about the human experience in general – namely, that time was an illusion of itself. Nearly every theory of time was rooted in fallacy, and manipulation of it as a concept was actually accomplished through the mechanism of thought or emotion.”

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285. “Aldo disliked the sensation of being asleep. It felt something very close to being dead, which was an uncomplicated and therefore troubling state of being.”

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286. “Now Callum’s mistake was obvious: he had thought to prove himself strong, but nobody wanted strength. Not like his. Strength was for machines and monsters; the others could not relate to faultlessness or perfection. Humans wanted humanity, and that meant he would have to show evidence of weakness.”

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287. “I know what people want to hear. You make them want to hear what you know.”

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288. “Unfortunately, setting fire to Nico de Varona’s undergarments was considered unacceptable behavior.”

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289. “Science requires a control group. A known lie,” he clarified, “to compare against possible lies.” “And why would you need a control group?” Seemed obvious to him. “Because I want to know when you’re lying to me.”

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290. “He says my number one quality is my attention span and I should never let anyone tell me otherwise.”

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291. “People were such delicate little playthings.”

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292. “That’s a cycle,” he said, “not a circle,” but he understood what she meant.”

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293. “Just to make sure he could fix it the moment an unpleasant thought crossed her mind, which it didn’t, but just in case it did, he never left her.”

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294. “He’d practice with that lately, closing off his senses. Disassociating, disintegrating, twisting the dials that separated his body from the ceaseless nature of itself. It was a simple forfeiture this time, relinquishing his rights to observe anything at all. Falling to his proverbial knees and saying yes, all right then, I yield.”

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295. “Too many people had refused when she had wished that they would beg her to stay, and now, because of them, she had let him go so easily, unclenching all her fingers at once.”

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296. “They had not even disentangled and already, Dalton was looking for ways to make her the villain of his femme fatale narrative, which was hardly something she had the time or patience for.”

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297. “With Regan, everything came down to sacredness.”

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298. “His brain didn’t approach things in an easily observable way; he unintentionally skipped steps and was then forced to move backwards, usually by the sound of some throat-clearing distress at his back.”

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299. “Unluck,” Dalton repeated. “Hexes are of course the most direct form; intentional bad luck caused to the victim. The other two – ” “Jinxes are inconveniences, entanglements,” said Libby. “And curses are deliberate harm?”

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300. “That she will keep turning corners until she finds him.”

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