Genevieve Cogman Quotes

I have no intention of signing up to her crusade," Irene said. "To anyone's crusade.

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

Life was much easier before I had to worry about everyone else worrying," Irene muttered.
"It's called growing up, dear. It comes with staying alive.

“May I be frank?” Sherrington asked.
Irene sighed. This was always the sign of a fast-approaching insult.

Very well. Then our conversation is over."
"Aren't you going to threaten me?" Irene asked.
"Miss Winters, if you don't already feel threatened, I'm not doing my job properly.

My dear Irene, there are two sorts of collectors. One is satisfied by simply owning the treasured item and doesn’t care whether or not the rest of the world knows. But the other sort—they absolutely have to brag about their possessions. For them, half the pleasure comes from the thought of acquaintances gnawing their guts out with envy. Even if it increases the risk of theft, they can’t help themselves.

There were so many possible logical holes in that statement that Irene could have used it as a tea-strainer.

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

Don’t you realize you have a responsibility to other people to look after yourself?

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

You must surely know by now, Winters, that a leader’s authority is limited to giving her followers orders that they will actually obey.

Are there other Librarian ghosts here?" she asked.
"Ghosts? Yes, I suppose that's the best word for it. Collections of memories, maybe. We are all the sum of our memories, after all.

Oh, history," Silver said, cutting her off. "You'll be talking about reality next, as if it were something special too.

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

I think my point holds. People want stories. You should know that more than anybody. They want their lives to have meaning. They want to be part of something greater than themselves. Even you, Miss Winters, want to be a heroic Librarian—don't you? And if you're going to say that people need to have the freedom to be unhappy, something that's forced on them whether they like it or not, I would question your motivation." She paused for a single deadly second. "Most people don't want a brave new world. They want the story that they know.