bookmate game
en
Olivie Blake

The Atlas Paradox

Avise-me quando o livro for adicionado
Para ler este livro carregue o arquivo EPUB ou FB2 no Bookmate. Como carrego um livro?
  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 9 dias
    Olympus was empty and so was hell. The devils were all here, in this house.
  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 9 dias
    “Forcing something to exist that has no choice over the matter,” he said, “is an act of pure selfishness.”
  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 9 dias
    Luckily, if people could be counted on for anything, it was a narcissism of sorts. Everyone was somewhere on the spectrum of self-obsession, and under the circumstances,
  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 9 dias
    “We cannot control what the world chooses to do with knowledge. It is not ours to possess.”
  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 9 dias
    Who lived without guilt? No one. What Libby could not live with was regret. She knew too much. That was the trick of it all, the knowing.
  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 9 dias
    “Libby Rhodes is not your goodness, Tristan,” she cautioned. Steadying him, as if for disappointment. “She’s her own open flame.”

    Poetic

  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 9 dias
    This was just the world. You trusted people, you loved them, you offered them the dignity of your time and the intimacy of your thoughts and the frailty of your hope and they either accepted it and cared for it or they rejected it and destroyed it and in the end, none of it was up to you.
  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 10 dias
    Sequestering his dangerous parts, his appetite for power, was enough to trick sentience, but not life. A person was only ever himself. So much of what they became, who they were, was inseverable, irreversible. If to others that meant irredeemable, then so be it.
  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 10 dias
    This was the danger in playing with a person’s conscious mind, because nobody was made from only strong materials.
  • fanfez uma citaçãohá 10 dias
    mask of his virtues wouldn’t last. Not that this version of him was strictly evil and the other version good, or that any person could contain all of one inside themselves without the other.
fb2epub
Arraste e solte seus arquivos (não mais do que 5 por vez)