Top 400 Olivie Blake Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “I’m keeping you from death, not letting you live. There’s a difference.”

— Olivie Blake

352. “This feeling, this flutter in my chest and this lightness in my bones and this flicker in my blood, this must be happiness. This must be what it feels like to be happy.”

— Olivie Blake

353. “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.”

— Olivie Blake

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

— Olivie Blake

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

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357. “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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358. “It was an old trick, really, death and disappearance to start anew.”

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359. “This was a torment she would seek again and again. The trauma of him was exquisite, the vice of his intimacy combative and honeyed.”

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360. “Yes,” he said – he would have said it to anything, she could have suggested a mutiny and he’d have searched tirelessly for an axe, a pitchfork, Excalibur itself – and she smiled up at him, lifting her chin to permit him full view of her approval. The prospect of it, of anything, buzzed in his veins.”

— Olivie Blake

361. “Memory was a luxury not to be wasted on the unworthy.”

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362. “You, I think, have a condition of smallness, invisibility.” He sat up, leaning forward. “You are forced to see everything as it is, Tristan,” Callum murmured, “because you think you cannot be seen at all.”

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363. “Reina hadn’t known her mother very well, but she was pretty sure that this speech was a very sad way for her story to end – that all could be said of her unremarkable life was that she was proficient at two jobs. Nothing about whether she sang off-key in the shower or was fearful of garden snakes, or anything to give her any real shape at all.”

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364. “Math is a difficult thing to love, he said. It’s precise and unforgiving, it’s evasive and it will never love me back, but I don’t have much of a choice, do I? It’s the thing that I can do that other people can’t, or that other people lack the patience for. Are there worthier things, more rewarding things? Yes, probably. But I don’t know what they are, they never showed themselves to me. Only math did.”

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365. “That’s absurd,” said Tristan.”

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366. “The idea that even he didn’t recognize happiness when he felt it was comforting, in some way. She was comforted by knowing he was equally as stupid and hopeless as she was.”

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367. “The brushstrokes were precisely the artist’s, not hers. It was thievery in every possible aspect of its creation. She had left nothing of herself in its reproduction, merely cloning the vacant starvation that had existed there before, and then she’d done the same another dozen times; proving to herself that, at very least, she could still see, she could still think, she could still interpret.”

— Olivie Blake

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

— Olivie Blake

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

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371. “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

372. “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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373. “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.”

— Olivie Blake

374. “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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375. “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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376. “That she will keep turning corners until she finds him.”

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377. “How strange it was, being so close to death; looking it in the face, grasping the finery of all its features.”

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378. “People were such delicate little playthings.”

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

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

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

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

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384. “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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385. “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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386. “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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387. “Maybe after a lifetime of being useless, Tristan simply wanted to be used.”

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388. “Everything was about money, but if you had enough of it you could forget that was true.”

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389. “We might have had a very dull life together- mundane, you know? And probably wonderful.”

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390. “Because we have agreed, collectively, that to proceed without knowledge or understanding is a stupid kind of bravery, an impulsive kind of blindness, but that to be alone without wonder or curiosity is to chip away any possible value we might discover in existing.”

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391. “You resent privilege in all its forms, including your own, yet you show no desire to unmake the present system. I think someday you will awaken to your own conviction, and when you do, something will compel you forward.”

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392. “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...”

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393. “In Regan’s opinion, marriage was very easy to do if you simply operated in totally separate spheres.”

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394. “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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395. “Is it not a proven fact of history that power isn’t meant to exist in the hands of the very few?”

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396. “Si no usaba esta vida, entonces la estaba desperdiciando.”

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397. “Libby Roads was an anxious, impending meltdown whose decisions were based entirely on what she had allowed the world to shape her into. She was more powerful than all of them, except for Nico. And of course she was. Because that was her curse.”

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398. “Regan always felt most secure in the hands of a man with no misconceptions of her flaws, because for better or worse, he would not be swayed by the possibility of their resurgence.”

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399. “A kiss that went on for half a moment, endlessly, and lasted infinitesimally, for years. It was trauma and mortality, legend and mythology.”

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400. “You know why you don’t understand me?” Parisa answered Reina’s thoughts, stepping closer to lower her voice. “Because you think you’ve figured me out. You think you’ve met me before, other versions of women like me, but you have no idea what I am. You think my looks are what make me? My ambitions? You can’t begin to know the sum of my parts, and you can stare all you like, but you won’t see a damn thing until I show you.”

— Olivie Blake