“This was it, the chronic condition—the only meaning Parisa had left in life. It wasn’t a secret society, it wasn’t an ancient library, it wasn’t an experiment that had taken two decades to design, it was waking up every fucking morning and deciding to keep going. The tiny, unceremonious, incomparable mdiracle of making it through another goddamn day. The knowledge that life was mean and it was exacting. It was cruel and it was cursed; it was recalcitrant and precious. It was always ending. But it did not have to be earned.”
― The Atlas Complex
― The Atlas Complex
“What you’re willing to accept doesn’t change what I’m willing to give.”
― The Atlas Complex
― The Atlas Complex
“Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“Callum would simply have to look Tristan in the eye and say, as un-pathetically as possible, you don't have to choose me. Just know that it won't stop me from choosing you.”
― The Atlas Complex
― The Atlas Complex
“Maybe her only purpose was to survive, which was fucking difficult, and so maybe that was enough.”
― The Atlas Complex
― The Atlas Complex
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