The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)

by Genevieve Cogman

And it didn’t help to brood over it herself: the brooding tended to devolve into corrosive anger,

Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.’

‘Sympathy would imply I might even try to help them. Pity is much safer. It can be delivered from on high without getting involved. I pity them.

The only person who can ever set bounds on you should be yourself.’

‘I have spent most of my life preferring books to people,’ Irene said sharply. ‘Just because I like a few specific people doesn’t change anything.’

‘Blind faith is just another word for slavery,’