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1 " There was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth. "
― Olivie Blake , The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
2 " Every time a pill sat in Regan's palm she suffered some new strangulation; a faint memory of some distant need to force her heart to race. She'd crave a senseless rage, a dried-up sob, a psychotic joy, but only find pulse after pulse of nothing.Without the volatility of her extremes, what was she?'Managed,' she'd said. "
― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether
3 " Don't let me wake up alone. "
4 " What did you learn?" he asked neutrally. That I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed. "
5 " She'd have to be measured infinitely in order to be calculated, which no one could ever do. "
6 " 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. "
7 " It isn't constancy that keeps us alive, it's the progression we use to move us. "
8 " Ambition was such a dirty word, so tainted, but she had it. She was enslaved by it. There was so much ego to the concept of fate, but she needed to cling to it. She needed to believe she was meant for enormity; that the fulfillment of a destiny could make for the privilege of salvation, even if it didn't feel that way right now. "
9 " The problem with knowledge, is its inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know "
10 " they were binary stars, trapped in each other’s gravitational field and easily diminished without the other’s opposing force "
11 " The moral of this story is:Beware the man who faces you unarmed.If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon. "
12 " Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth. "
13 " She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her. "
14 " A flaw of humanity,” said Parisa, shrugging. “The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness. "
15 " Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me? "
16 " 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. "
17 " We are the gods of our own universes, aren't we? Destructive ones. "
18 " The day you are not a fire,” he said, “is the day the earth will fall still for me. "
19 " Knowledge is carnage. You can’t have it without sacrifice. "
20 " we are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal—that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn "
