Alone With You in the Ether
Olivie Blake
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“You are brilliant. Tell your mind to be kind to you today.”
“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”
“Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too.”
“I want you to say everything, anything. I want to have your thoughts, I want to bottle them, I want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping.”
“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.”
“I like it,” he said. “What?” He loosened the wine from his lips. “Your brain.”
“So when people say we¡re alone in the ether?" "Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion.”
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