The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

by Olivie Blake

All men can love a forbidden thing, generally speaking, and in most cases knowledge is precisely that; lost knowledge even more so.

Beware the man who faces you unarmed. If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon.

there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.

“Because the problem with knowledge, Miss Rhodes, is its inexhaustible craving. The more of it you have, the less you feel you know,” said Atlas. “Thus, men often go mad in search of it.”

A very existential crisis, really, that he no longer knew the difference between what was true, objectively, and what he merely believed to be true because it had been told to him that way.

“Intelligent people respond more quickly to stimuli, therefore intelligent people experience time faster, and may be perceived to have more of it. Intelligence is, in some senses, also an illness—genius is frequently a side effect of mania.

“A flaw of humanity,” said Parisa, shrugging as they walked. “The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.”

Money couldn’t buy happiness, but nothing could buy happiness, so at least money could buy everything else.

Men, conceptually, are canceled,”

But as the world itself will tell you, something put in motion will not stop.