The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

by Olivie Blake

antipathy.

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A uniquely upsetting curse, really, how little he knew how to exist when she wasn’t there;

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

“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.”

Maybe after a lifetime of being useless, Tristan simply wanted to be used.

Aww I actually feel sorry for him

Poverty, decolonization, the school-to-prison pipeline, the global migrant crisis . . . being human and institutionally overlooked was bad enough.

Only the dead kept secrets.

“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.”

Abrupt or offhand

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