“She’d given him arrows and he’d shot, and now parts of her were gaping holes, flayed and filleted and left behind as open wounds.” I want to have your thoughts, I want to bottle them, I want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping.”
“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” He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong time is made of her.” He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. “She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. “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.” “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?” Think that I am exaggerating? Here are a few of my favourite heart-wrenching quotes: Their connection is on such a deep and complex level, it left me breathless. Because of the tendency to self-destruct, this story is also filled with dark tension. It tells the story of two people with complex personalities, dealing with mental health issues.
It is beautifully written, intricate, and emotional. The intro, as well as the fact that Aldo, a scientist fixated on time travel, led me down that road a bit longer that I’d like to admit! About halfway through, I got serious “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” ideas.īUT, I was surprised and thrilled to find that what unfolds on the pages of “Alone With You In The Ether” is an engrossing and emotional love story that blew my mind. I do prefer to go into books “blind”, so I did have the preconceived idea of this book being fantasy fiction. My ThoughtsĪlthough I haven’t (yet) read “The Atlas Six” (shock, horror!), don’t think that this is remotely the same, as it isn’t. The truth – that he is a clinically depressed, anti-social theoretician and she is a manipulative liar with a history of self-sabotage – means the deeper they fall in love, the more troubling their reliance on each other becomes.Īlone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake is a glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you’re not broken. After their meeting, those things do not change.Įverything else, however, is slightly different.īoth obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and Charlotte Regan struggle to be without each other from the moment they meet. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance.
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