The Dark Archive Quotes

“She didn’t always have to be the strong one. We can be strong for each other.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Dark Archive

“It goes a bit like this,” Irene said, as they walked towards the stairs. “The first step is, I’ll kill myself before I let him do that to me again. The second step is to say, Wait, it’d be much more practical to kill him rather than kill myself. And there you have it. A sensible plan based on logical choices.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Dark Archive

“No, refusal is an option. It’s just that refusal comes with consequences. If you make a choice, then you’re responsible for the consequences of that choice.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Dark Archive

“I think there may be lots of different types of librarians,’ Catherine said thoughtfully. She had the air of someone who’d seen a whole new range of possibilities and found she liked them more than she’d expected. ‘There’s the sharing librarian, and the motherly librarian, and the spinster librarian, and the archivist librarian, and the adventurous librarian like you — there’s nothing that says I can’t be a murderous librarian.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Dark Archive

“Fire existed only for a moment, remade with every passing second, constantly replaced by newly-created flames. While the burning materials might be of this world and contaminated by chaos, the actual tongues of fire were untouched. They were free from corruption as they winked in and out of existence.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Dark Archive

“That’s because I desperately cling to any optimism I can get.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Dark Archive