The Atlas Six (Atlas Series Book 1)

“Recognize it? Yes, certainly. An enormous magical event,”

humanity longs for things most ardently as a collective.

incendiary

we have always been a species highly susceptible to the call of the distant unknown.

irascibly

They were entranced, as well they should be. Dalton was very good at breathing life into things, ideas, objects. It was a subtle skill. So subtle it did not appear to be magic at all, which made him an exceptional academic.

“We do not, as a society, believe it is necessary for one man to know everything. We don’t consider it particularly possible, either, and certainly not very safe.”

“Because the problem with knowledge, Miss Rhodes, is its inexhaustible craving. The more of it you have, the less you feel you know,” said Atlas. “Thus, men often go mad in search of it.”

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