The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)

by Genevieve Cogman

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

It was like one of those Venn diagrams where all the possible Bad Things intersected to provide a Worst Possible Thing at the centre.

The only problem is that it’s difficult to imagine something entirely new. We use the words and definitions of the past to shape our ideas. Something that is genuinely the next evolutionary step is unlikely to resemble anything we can imagine.