Genevieve Cogman Quotes

She’d sort things out later. She’d explain things later. Right now she just had to make sure there would be a later.

First things first. Get the facts, then decide what to do next. And hope that there is a next.

There were things to do, people to see, questions to ask. Books to read.

It was only a hypothesis, but it made an uncomfortable amount of sense.

We shouldn’t be playing politics. We should be focusing on what’s important.

I think the time for blind trust is long over. Now I need answers.

And, really, Erda had put the basic problem in a nutshell. Everyone here viewed damage to their own particular interest as more significant than damage to anyone else’s. Whatever the scale of the damage.

You mean me entering the Library may have destroyed the universe?" Catherine asked
"You don't need to sound quite so impressed by it," Irene chided. "It's not something you want on your yearly performance review.

Catherine looked as if she was about to boil over. “We have been poisoned,” she said again. “We’re about to die! I’ll never get at those books!”
“Now, that’s the right attitude,” Kai agreed, glad to see her demonstrating a proper sense of priorities.

Be careful. Be diplomatic. Try not to blow anything up.

She was trying to work out who these men were working for. Were they Qing Song’s minions, random gangsters, specific gangsters, or undercover police? So many enemies, so little time.

Indigo was precisely the sort of person who would declare that a just revolution was worth a million deaths. As long as she wasn’t one of them, of course.

“Maybe it’s like being a parent,” she said, bringing up a Library map. “You never really see your children as adults.”
“You’re exaggerating,” Kai said, with the easy confidence of someone who hadn’t tested the issue yet.

The problem with paranoia was that if you let it rule all your decisions, then you would miss some perfectly good opportunities.

She was a Librarian, and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out and have nothing to worry about except the next page of whatever she was reading.