The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

by Olivie Blake

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.

A self-perpetuating cycle, really, that knowledge begets knowledge just as power begets power—generationally, institutionally.

Knowledge is carnage. You can’t have it without sacrifice.”

“Someone who has seen another person waste away is easy to spot. They are haunted differently.”