The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

by Olivie Blake

Reading the mind of a person you cannot change is as powerless as time-traveling to an ending you can’t rewrite.

I shouldn’t have asked for power when what I really wanted was meaning.

Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be driven to destroy it.

Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be compelled to save it.

It was the piece that knew the hardest thing about existence was having a talent for causing suffering and declining to use it because it was bad. The piece that understood that success was not quantifiable by any form of capital. That it was most admirable to walk around in the world and choose not to break things just because you can.