Madilyn Crouch

“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 in retrospect it could be known, and therefore understood.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.”
― Jessica Dotta, Born of Persuasion

“All men can love a forbidden thing, generally speaking, and in most cases knowledge is precisely that; lost knowledge even more so.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Embarrassment, as it turns out, is more powerful than information. And shame is the enemy of truth.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons