The Atlas Paradox (Atlas Series Book 2)

Reina Mori had not yet realized that people had a maddening tendency to be precisely what they were in the most unpredictable, erratic way possible.

This is what it means to be a god: to enforce a new era of change.

He now believed the desire to live to be more than philosophy, more than psychology, but rather, a primordial principle of physics.

They approximated beauty without actually reaching it, much like Callum’s face typically looked to himself.

We can’t help clinging to our origins, Callum said. The past always seems more ordered, Rhodes. 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, because our perception of it is false—it was never that the world was simple. Just that

Jung said the self was the sum total of a person’s psyche. The part that looked forward, the process of individuation, the quest to become something more.

patently

blithe

one thing Parisa had come to learn was that other people’s view of her said far more about them than it ever did about her.

“The idea that everyone is born with access to some larger, interconnected subconscious. Something we share as a species, instead of something determined for us as individuals.”