Aamin

“Like maybe he could ask her something silly and trifling, like if she’d ever looked at the moon and felt empty or if she knew how it felt to set foot in a country with a language she didn’t speak, and she wouldn’t have to tell him the answer, because he would just know it. He would just know.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“if you haven’t made any enemies in life, you’ve been living too safely. And that is what I wish to discourage”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Because nobody will deny you anything the moment you stop denying yourself. Who could possibly have sovereignty greater than yours?” she asked, insistent. “Who on earth could have the right to refuse you, if you do not permit it? If this isn’t the way, Sasha, then find another one.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“From somewhere in his mind’s periphery he caught the vestiges of a very Rhodesian sigh—Varona, honestly, like the proverbial chord that David played to annoy the Lord.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox