Nadine ⭒

“I think the point is to be surprised by people. It’s not to know them completely. It’s to see them in a new way all the time, always turning them over and finding something different, some new fascinating thing.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“It was a small, gentle cruelty of life that most people with a true sense of purpose lack the talent to achieve it. The people with talent are far more likely directionless, an odd but unavoidable irony.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“Left to their own devices, humans will inevitably resort to baser impulses, to self-eradicating violence. Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be driven to destroy…Left to their own devices, humans will inevitably care for another at great detriment to themselves. Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be compelled to save it. It is not one side or the other. Both are true. Flip the coin and see where it lands.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“(Was this really the life she'd meant to chase, or was this just another way to run?)”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex