White text on a dark blue background that reads, “One thing at a time. Murder first and then scholarly pursuits.”

😏 The only way to go about it. #currentlyreading #kindlequotes #TheAtlasParadox
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There is doom to be found everywhere if doom is what you seek. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

Was this supposed to be a revelation—some meaningful slice of perspective into what each of them really was—or was it somehow a trap? And if it was, was she the one being caught, or was he? #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

We are reasonable creatures and so everything must have its place, its purpose—but we are also egotistical creatures, and so we give ourselves reasons that don’t exist. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

She would experience in retrospect the moments, the flashes, but not the blindness—the absolute carnage of the pain. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

The taste of wine and anguish. The right moment looming, then faltering. The thud of his heart. The clock on the mantel. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

I believed the universe was completely random, and that’s what eluded us. Because we all want to believe we are fundamental in some way. We are our own myths, our own legends. We give things reason. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

It crushed his chest with yearning, the stupor of infatuation, the idleness and opulence of a memory that had never existed. The velvet softness of her. He missed her already, like she was already gone. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

Say you are given some power, which then increases your capacity to accumulate more power. Your capacity for power increases exponentially in relation to the actual power you have gained. Thus, to gain power is to be increasingly powerless.
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We can’t help clinging to our origins. The past always seems more ordered. It always seems clearer, more straightforward, easier to understand. We have a craving for it, that sense of simplicity, but only an idiot would ever chase the past. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

It became easier over time to deny others the right to know her, to look too long at her. She developed a talent for isolation. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

His only application of what he had learned of her selfhood was being used to preserve his own ego, to service his own strengths. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

The impact of his body meeting hers was almost poetic with familiarity; as if he remembered the shape of her down to the inch. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

There was something awful about feeling rage and wanting to strangle something but instead falling prey to the softness of hormones, welling up with the inadequacy of sadness when what she meant to do was scream. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

Who lived without guilt? No one. What she could not live with was regret. She knew too much. That was the trick of it all, the knowing. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

His proximity was powerful, enlivening. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

Destiny was a choice. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

Almost as if. Exactly as if. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

Dreams were the intersect of time and thought. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

That there was something about her to merit being seen. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

Knowledge is carnage, you can’t have it without sacrifice. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

If the more power one has, the less one has, then is it the thing or are you? #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

What else was intimacy if not the memorization of her thoughts, her dreams, her fears. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

Aviditas. Appetite. Aviditas vitae, the wanting to live. The hunger for it, which drove everything. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

I’m real for you. I’m undeniable to you in at least one sense. / Which is? / I’m what you’ve been waiting for. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

That something so allegedly impactful could fall away like this, with no ceremony, no notice. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

One where humans are no longer at the whims of the elements, but the shapers of them, the determiners.
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This was what it was to be a god, she decided. Not to live forever, but to restore the order of things. To bring about the age of something new. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

If power is a thing to be had, it must be capable of possession. But power is not any discrete size or weight. Power is continuous. Power is parabolic. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake

Our perception of the past is false—it was never that the world was simple. Just that in retrospect it could be known, and therefore understood. #TheAtlasParadox #OliviaBlake