The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
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there is doom to be found everywhere if doom is what you seek.
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(If you do not know precisely where impossibility begins and ends, then of course it cannot constrain you.)
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“The regular pains of ordinariness and existence. Wanting things you cannot have, assigning yourself a destiny that you’ll never be able to fulfill,
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“I promise,” Gideon sighed, “that I won’t get myself hurt, killed, or otherwise maimed.” “No psychological damage either,” Nico warned. “Takes forever to get trauma out of the drapes.”
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I’ve been called much worse by people who mattered far more,”
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What a productive use of both their time this conversation was.
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Something inside him was forever altered, forever wretched, eternally forgone.
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They’re called our formative years for a reason. Because we always return to them in some form.
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Death, death is what makes us what we are, which is alive.
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After law and order inevitably came indecency and art.
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the world was essentially a stupid place and they were all basically flawed in the same ways. There were variations here and there, but functionally they were all idiots.
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We are our own myths, our own legends. We give things reason.
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things were more righteous when they were done in the light, for anyone to see them.
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A drink to his health. And to it never outlasting her own.
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Because if I can make life, then I am obligated in some way to do so.
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“My family is not my tragedy,”
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Callum looked up, traveling a long way in his thoughts to reach her.
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Nico had never met a sentence he didn’t want to interrupt.
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He saw the possibility of doom and said not today, fucker!, flipping off the whims of fate while diving backward into hell.
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Always has things removed when we go to restaurants. I think it’s a game for her. She always wants something changed just so she can establish her dominance over dinner.”
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he could taste the supple Chardonnay of a righteous upper hand.
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There is nothing special about this universe except that it’s ours.
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nature wanted increasingly for her to go outside and touch some grass.
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Get old, spend money, die.”
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The wheel would invariably turn. She heard her grandmother’s voice in her head: Reina-chan, you were born for a reason. Fine. So then she would be ready when the wheel was.
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“So, my father wants to kill me. Wonderful. How new and exciting for me.”
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Ah. The delightful taste of withering hope.
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“The moment you let yourself love, Reina Mori, it will be the death of you.
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Tristan wanted only to let the bridges he’d burned light the path ahead.
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Destiny was a choice. Time to torch this outcome and let the fucker burn.
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“I want everything,” he said. “Don’t you?”
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in the moment that he burned, he pined, he perished, Ezra Mikhail Fowler looked into the eyes of his death and thought ah, so then this is destiny.