Alone With You In The Ether Quotes
"Everything was a consequence that rippled out from some fixed point of entry, and it had become a game of hers to expose the genesis from which everything else had sprung."
"For every sensation Regan could conjure, there was an artist who had beautifully suffered the same."
"It was beautiful because, at the heart of it, it was twisted and soulless and ugly, and therefore it mirrored something masochistic in Regan herself."
"Either yes, it mattered very much, or no, it did not matter at all, because beginnings and endings were not as important as the moments that could have happened or the outcomes that might have been."
"Aldo’s right thumb beat against his thigh, percussive to the rhythm of Grieg’s In the Hall of Mountain King."
"The act of solving something was, for him, as superstitious as anything."
"Math had rules, finite and concrete, but then it just kept going."
"She was the center of attention when she wished to be, quick-witted and charming and impeccably dressed, but those types of girls grew dull when there were no eccentricities or blemishes."
"He enjoyed solving problems, true, but found teaching to be more tedious than challenging."
"Everything leading to everything else, following the same patterns if you happened to look closely enough."
"All art is private. The first question was about the collection, but now you’re asking me to reveal something personal about myself."
"But if you want to identify an emotion, or a sensation, then there is nothing more precise than art."
"Art was simply art, with inconsequential specifics."
"It’s art because it’s art, which is circular in its way."
"I’m a theoretical mathematician. I hypothesize and then prove."
"Some honeybees have stingers incapable of penetrating human skin."
"Hexagons. They’re the basis for quantum groups."
"A combination of environmental factors, genetic proclivities, inherent traits."
"She’s confounding, really intricate. Infinite."
"I’m sorry, but Charlotte, you’re making a scene."
"You want to feel him like an anchor, like a weight."
"Grow up, Charlotte, and accept things as they are."
"You are not in love with Rinaldo Damiani whose hair smells like Sunday morning in the sun."
"I’m going to make something today. Something new."
"Sometimes I feel like I’m just waiting for something that will never happen."
"If it all fails, Aldo, go back and erase us, make it like we never happened."
"I think you carry around a sadness from another life."
"I don’t think you can ever really know a person without fucking them."
"I’m standing with my feet in the ocean, and you’re smiling at me like I’m an idiot."
"I’m going to replace those memories, Aldo. I’m taking them back for me."
"You won’t hurt me, will you? We’re not hurting anyone, we’re just—whatever, we’re in love."
"Math is a difficult thing to love. It's precise and unforgiving, it's evasive and it will never love me back, but I don’t have much of a choice, do I?"
"Every time you love, pieces of you break off and get replaced by something you steal from someone else."
"I think it’s incredibly human what you do. You look for explanations. It’s part of our fundamental code to wonder, don’t you think?"
"Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears."
"She would implant herself in Aldo over time, whether she intended to or not."
"You’re not an overdose you can undo with a Ph.D. I’m not a problem you can solve."
"He woke me up, she wanted to scream; he woke me, and for that I will always rely on him."
"Math comes very easily to me," he eventually said. "What if it didn’t?" "What?" "What if it didn’t come easily? Would you still do it?"