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“As I imagine you could have done a great number of things during the period in which we spoke. How long would it have taken you to start a war, do you think? Or to end one?” He paused, and Callum said nothing. “Five minutes? Perhaps ten? How long would it have taken you to kill someone? To save a life? I admire what you have not done.” Atlas acknowledged, tilting his head with something of a beckoning glance, “but I do have to question why you haven’t done it.”
“Because I’d drive myself mad interfering with the world,” said Callum impatiently. “It requires a certain level of restraint to be what I am.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Remus groans, his eyes sinking shut. He lifts his hands and scrubs them over his face before he drops them heavily, looking weary. "You are one the most unbelievably fucked up people I've ever met, you know that?"
"Takes one to know one, I suppose," Regulus replies wryly, arching an eyebrow at him. Remus huffs out a weak laugh. "Yeah, can't argue that.”
― Zeppazariel, Crimson Rivers

“I've got you, Rhodes. From here on, I swear.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“How do you kill what's already dead?
You revive it just to watch it rot.”
― Zeppazariel, Crimson Rivers