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21 " The problem with knowledge, is it's inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know "
― Olivie Blake , The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
22 " The world was mostly entropy and chaos; magic, then, was order, because it was control. "
23 " You don’t have to be sorry for existing, you know, "
24 " I’ve got you, Rhodes. From here on, I swear. "
25 " She made devastation look like riches, like jewels. "
26 " You're a fire hazard, Rhodes," he said. "So stop apologizing for the damage and just let the fucker burn. "
27 " People who lined up to see the Mona Lisa typically couldn’t name the paintings hanging nearby, and there was nothing wrong with that. "
28 " Every single one of us is missing something. We are all too powerful, too extraordinary, and don't you see it's because we're riddled with vacancies? We are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal - that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn. "
29 " Many people incorrectly assume time to be a steady incline, a measured arc of growth and progress, but when history is written by the victors the narrative can often misrepresent that shape. "
30 " What are we celebrating?”“Our fragile mortality,” Tristan said. “The inevitability that we will descend into chaos and dust. "
31 " We all have our own curses. Our own blessings.” Callum’s smile faltered. “We are the gods of our own universes, aren’t we? Destructive ones. "
32 " It was the kind of look that reminded him she’d set him on fire the first time she’d met him without even batting an eye.He’d like her more if she did it more often. "
33 " Men, conceptually, are canceled,” Libby said to her knees. “This Society? Founded by men, I guarantee it. Kill someone for initiation? A man’s idea. Totally male. "
34 " And so where there had once been six were now, irreversibly, one. "
35 " More interesting than the game is always the players, you know. "
36 " There is a difference between what we are capable of and how we choose to use it. "
37 " That was the distasteful thing about villains, really. Not the manner in which they went about their business, which was certainly gruesome and morally corrupt, but the fact that they desired things so intensely. "
38 " Libby was a hero. Parisa was a villain. Their goals were overarching, appositional. Nico and Reina were so impartial and self-interested as to be wholly negligible. Tristian was a soldier, he would follow where he was most persuasively led. It was Callum who was an assassin. "
39 " We study the realm of consciousness because we understand that to decide something, to weigh a cost and accept its consequences, is to forcibly alter the world in some tangible way. That is magic as true and as real as any other. "
40 " Oh, it comforts him, really, not that he’ll ever admit it. Knowing the truth of my sordid nature only confirms Tristan’s deepest suspicions about humanity,” Parisa replied to Libby’s inner thoughts, catching her sidelong glance. “I’m confident Tristan could be stabbed mid-climax and still find the strength to groan out ‘I was right’ before succumbing to the cavernous embrace of death. "