Grace

“Perhaps it was a tired thing, all references the world had already made to the Ptolemaic Royal Library of Alexandria. History had proven the library to be an endlessly fascinating as a subject, either because the obsession with what it might have contained was bound only be the imagination or because humanity longs for things most ardently as a collective. All men can love a forbidden thing, generally speaking, and in most cases knowledge is precisely that; lost knowledge even more so. Tired or not, there is something for everyone to long for when it comes to the Library of Alexandria, and we have always been a species highly susceptible to the call of the distant unknown.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“She had the air of someone who had seen a lot and decided to simply close her eyes and stop looking.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“I won’t list the figures I obtained—although I remember them perfectly, for they are the birth dates of my thoughts.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“It was as if they were the only two people in the entire world on a lonely stretch of road that led to nowhere and everywhere all at once.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door