City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

by Robert Jackson Bennett

It is a fool who lives his life believing the waves upon which he sails shall remember him. The seas know nothing. This makes them beautiful. And this makes them terrible.

My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of an adult is someone who knows the world was here before they showed up and that it’ll be here well after they walk away from it. My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking perspective.

power doesn’t change. It just changes clothes.

human history is just combinations and recombinations of inequalities.