_Naomi_

“he was gripped with terror, understanding now what it really meant to love something. That to love a person was to forfeit the need to place limits on them, and therefore lo love was to exist in a constant, paralyzing threat.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“It frustrated him immensely that he would never be able to prove that time didn't stop when she met his eye.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“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

“This hurts too much to touch with words.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners