The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)

by Genevieve Cogman

Common sense argued that she shouldn’t attribute to malice what could perfectly well be explained by stupidity, or at least by organizational mistakes.

Getting killed was incredibly easy. Anyone could do it. Staying safe and alive was much harder.

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action

Mr. Dawkins, I ask you: am I really worth your time, when so many people are queuing up to kill me anyhow?” Dawkins snorted. “I have to say that’s not the sort of argument people usually give me.”

Panic gave Irene a shot of icy-cold adrenaline and yanked her back to awareness, then retired to gibber in the back of her brain and let her take care of things.

“Wasn’t it Oscar Wilde who said that nothing succeeds like excess?

“Nobody sane, that is.” “Ay, there’s the rub,”