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Alone With You in the Ether QUOTES

Alone With You in the Ether QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

3 " She'd have to be measured infinitely in order to be calculated, which no one could ever do. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

4 " 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. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

5 " It isn't constancy that keeps us alive, it's the progression we use to move us. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

6 " 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. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

7 " 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? "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

8 " If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

9 " Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

10 " You are brilliant. Tell your mind to be kind to you today. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

11 " I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

12 " For every sensation Regan could conjure, there was an artist who had beautifully suffered the same. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

13 " You wouldn't make love with him, you'd make art. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

14 " Pretty, that's what you think this is? You think that's all she's capable of? You fool, she's done the impossible. She has explained everything there is to know about the world in less than the time it took for your eyes to filly focus, and do you realize that I will spend a lifetime trying to do the same never come close? This is an opus!, this is a triumph!, this is the meaning of life and you would think the answer would be satire, but it isn't, its Truth. She tomd the Truth like you could never dream of telling it, and I pity you, that you could see the inside of your own soul and reduce it like this, so pitylessly. So carelessly. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

15 " When you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but isn’t—it’s ignorance falling away. Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

16 " I like it,” he said.
“What?”
He loosened the wine from his lips. “Your brain. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

17 " There are no perfect circles, Regan. Yes, there’s one, and it’s this one: They fall in love because they’re always in love. That’s circular, not a circle. He can believe whatever he wants; she knows it’s a perfect circle. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

18 " So when people say we¡re alone in the ether?" "Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

19 " 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. "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether

20 " The world loved to take a beautiful woman and exclaim at the charm of her single imperfection "

― Olivie Blake , Alone With You in the Ether