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

They blew up a library. A library, Kai. They haven’t just offended me, they have attacked and insulted every single citizen of this place who used that library, who contributed to it, who even so much as might have used it someday in the future.

It was the sort of overly complex plan dreamed up by armchair manipulators who thought they could play chess with the universe and didn’t realize that the universe ignored rulebooks.

Irene realized she was on the point of shouting. Worse, of being ungrammatical. She took a deep breath.