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81 " So this is what it is to love something you cannot control, he thought. It felt precisely like terror. "
― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether
82 " In Reina’s mind, they were binary stars, trapped in each other’s gravitational field and easily diminished without the other’s opposing force. She wasn’t at all surprised when she discovered one was right-handed (Nico) and the other left (Libby). "
― Olivie Blake , The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
83 " She was afraid, always, except when she was proving herself. "
84 " Nothing anyone sees is real; only how they perceive it. "
85 " The world was filled poets who thought a woman’s love had unmade them. "
86 " He finds the monsters we keep locked away and sets them loose, so why would I ever want him to see mine? "
87 " People were such delicate little playthings. "
88 " The promise of your talents is nothing compared to whatever you ultimately prove to be. "
89 " He would come to share her joys until he could no longer separate them from his own, and then one day, maybe turning to her at a party or rushing to ask in a text message, he would say: What's that thing I like? And she would know the answer. She would know everything. Eventually, all the answers to all that he was would be cradled in the palms of her hands. "
90 " But the moment we realize we can feel fulfilled without carrying the burdens of belonging to another—that we can experience rapture without being someone's other half, and therefore beholden to their weaknesses, to their faults and failures and many insufferable fractures—then we're free, aren't we? "
91 " That old reflex never died; the little pang of Don't go, just stay. Settle over me like the tide, cover me like a blanket, wrap around me like the sun.Don't go, don't go, don't go. "
92 " 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. "
93 " Instead she thinks: I love him, and for a moment it doesn't matter whether he loves her back. It is enough to have known that the inside of her chest is more than a place for storage. "
94 " Sashneka,” Marya said, “you are not incomplete because a piece of your heart is gone. You are you, an entire whole, all on your own. If you have loved and been loved, then you are richer for it; you don't simply become a smaller version of yourself simply because what you once had is gone. "
― Olivie Blake , One For My Enemy
95 " No one here is good. Knowledge is carnage. You can’t have it without sacrifice. "
96 " 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. "
97 " My daughters are diamonds, as Yaga so often said. Nothing is more beautiful. Nothing shines brighter. And most importantly, nothing will break them. "
98 " 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. "
99 " Money couldn’t buy happiness, but nothing could buy happiness, so at least money could buy everything else. "
100 " All men can love a forbidden thing, generally speaking, and in most cases knowledge is precisely that; lost knowledge even more so. "