Irene hated trusting to luck. It was no substitute for good planning and careful preparation. - Genevieve Cogman

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.

But don't make the same mistakes that we have, Irene." Her mouth quirked in a smile. "Make some new ones.

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