The Atlas Six (Atlas Series Book 1)

détentes

irascibly

A uniquely upsetting curse, really, how little he knew how to exist when she wasn’t there;

All the knowledge the world possessed existed at their fingertips, and all they had to do in return was nurture it, make it grow.

have places to be,” Tristan said. A life to live. A future to curate. Atlas nodded.

Some people are taking too much, making themselves sick, and it kills them. The excess is poison; even food is a poison to someone who’s been deprived. Everything has the capacity to turn toxic.

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

The world was mostly entropy and chaos; magic, then, was order, because it was control.

Social trends and stigmas change, and the direction knowledge moves is not always forward. Magic is no different.