Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture Book 2)

I understand why people would want it to be true. Because it’s hard, when you’re not finished with someone. Like a book with the final chapters deleted. You want to believe there’s an intact copy out there, somehow.

you had to do that thing, sometimes, that was bigger than what you wanted.

she’d been taught to think that the Parthenon were the right and the good. And rather than that meaning they got to do what they liked, and their actions would be whitewashed as right and good because of who they were, it meant they had to actually do right and good things.

The Greater Good morphed into self-interest so easily; human history was full of it.

By the end of their meeting, they had seamlessly transitioned from trying to prepare for the worst to looking forward to it. And from there to actively trying to bring it about.

It’s amazing how someone can support your culture and ways absolutely up until the point you ask her to actually live by them.