She’d thought the situation couldn’t get much worse. She’d been wrong. The situation could always get worse. - Genevieve Cogman

Here and there people sat at desks, carefully turning the pages of manuscripts, or unrolling scrolls and making notes. It comforted her. This is a place built to store books, by people who wanted to preserve books, and used by people who want to read those books. I am not alone.

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

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