the olive

“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

“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island, but you can’t tell me it’s not your home. Your bubble, Mr. Baker. It’s been popped. Why would you allow it to grow around you again?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“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

“I don't know, it's like I look at you and suddenly the sonnets makes sense. The good ones, anyway.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains