Top 400 Olivie Blake Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Should anything harm your body, your thoughts will cease. Such is the manner of the living for a mortal.”

— Olivie Blake

252. “There is a difference between what we are capable of and how we choose to use it.”

— Olivie Blake

253. “The world was filled poets who thought a woman’s love had unmade them.”

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254. “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.”

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255. “A uniquely upsetting curse, really, how little he knew how to exist when she wasn’t there;.”

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256. “God demanded blood in almost every culture. Was magic any different?”

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

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258. “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.”

— Olivie Blake

259. “Very human of him, to long for a collective.”

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260. “Regan” – Charlotte, he reminded himself too late, but dismissed it as a foregone error – “isn’t just difficult, she’s convoluted. She’s contradictory – honest even when she lies,” he offered as an example, “and rarely the same version twice. She’s confounding, really intricate. Infinite.” That was the word, he thought, clinging to it once he found it. “She’d have to be measured infinitely in order to be calculated, which no one could ever do.”

— Olivie Blake

261. “Well, if time really was a trap and I was on some sort of predetermined course, that would be a relief,” she said. “The idea that I might have options or other time-spaces to occupy is a little overwhelming.”

— Olivie Blake

262. “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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263. “There had been no mother to kiss away the pain, and now the mark of inattention would remain.”

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264. “Of course you get a say,” Libby corrected him. “You can say, ‘Libby, I love you and I support you,’ or you can say something else.”

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265. “I could have been enough if you had ever let me.”

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266. “It brought him back to another moment long ago; to another bed, another time... another pillow talk confession.”

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267. “He finds the monsters we keep locked away and sets them loose, so why would I ever want him to see mine?”

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268. “She was powerful on her own. She did not need his oversight. She did not want it.”

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269. “He didn’t see the problem in loving her that way, with a savagery that felt as ancient as his sorrows, until he realized that the could no longer recall a life without her. It was as if the older versions of him had been erased and could no longer exist. He realized that his relationship whit time, whatever it was before, was now forever altered.”

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270. “She understood the compulsion to seek out more space. To lessen to a speck of nothingness.”

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271. “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.”

— Olivie Blake

272. “Regan believes there are two ways to manipulate a man: either to let him pursue you or to let him pursue you in a way that makes him feel he’s the pursuit.”

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273. “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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274. “He seemed intensely uninterested in talking about himself, which was half the reason she’d brought it up. She’d spent enough time looking too closely at things to know when she was the one being clinically observed.”

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275. “But two centuries of anger had not served him nearly as well as one day of honesty.”

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276. “Social trends and stigmas change, and the direction knowledge moves is not always forward.”

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277. “She had the air of someone who had seen a lot and decided to simply close her eyes and stop looking.”

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

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279. “The dark tips of her nails traveled the shape of his upper lip, curving with it, and in another version of this precise moment, he said, Regan, come closer, let’s see what happens, let’s see how the stars shine on your skin.”

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280. “A kiss that went on for half a moment, endlessly, and lasted infinitesimally, for years. It was trauma and mortality, legend and mythology, and then, out of oblivion, a little whisper of, “Does he taste like me?”

— Olivie Blake

281. “You’re telling his side of the story,” Aldo pointed out. “I asked for yours.”

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282. “How pathetic, thinking she could simply look at a gallery of intimacy and then approximate it for arousal in her head. Funny how desire had blended with closeness in her mind; how she’d confused pure physicality for the sensation of being whole.”

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283. “Without Aldo, Regan felt an uneasiness, a restlessness, something close to recklessness or, perhaps, far beyond it. She felt a vibrating sense of blankness, like the buzz of a fluorescent sign. Closed, open, vacancy, no vacancy. She felt like a door swinging open and shut, things coming and going, and she was merely the operator saying, Hold please.”

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

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285. “Generally speaking, Aldo was unlikely to get into any sort of street fight, much less a formal boxing ring. He just liked the reminder that, from time to time, he retained the option of adrenaline and pain.”

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286. “You must wonder sometimes if it would be easier not to exist.”

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287. “There was something awful about feeling rage and wanting to strangle something but instead falling prey to the softness of hormones, welling up with the inadequacy of sadness when what she meant to do was scream.”

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288. “Her ship? It’s always sinking, she hates it, it’s either sinking or it’s exploding, either way it never seems to be going anywhere.”

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289. “Regan suspected that Marc liked her a little broken; he liked expressing concern for her health, because caring for her made her grateful to him and therefore secured her as one of his treasures.”

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290. “This was a life of no expectations, which was the safest kind of life.”

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291. “Give me a chance to show you that this, whatever exists between us, it’s not an accident.”

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292. “Love simply lives and dies, like anything else.”

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293. “He matched her distance again, their foreheads meeting like old friends; Hello, how are you, been a long time, how nice it is to be here with you.”

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294. “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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295. “Ladies, let’s get in formation.”

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296. “She’d stopped wearing makeup around him and it was a beautiful, destructive thing, seeing her eyes so clearly.”

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297. “I want to see what you see,′ he said. “How will I do that if I never observe you in your natural habitat?”

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298. “Her art would not satisfy him because it wasn’t art at all, wasn’t anything. Art was emotional truth and she had none of that, not one single truth, and this bag was proof of it along with everything else.”

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299. “Aldo found it difficult to focus on something that required so little of his attention;.”

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300. “Because even when you know everything about how a piece is made, you’re still only seeing the surface.”

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