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The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2) QUOTES

The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2) QUOTES

1 " The perfect Librarian is calm, cool, collected, intelligent, multilingual, a crack shot, a martial artist, an Olympic-level runner (at both the sprint and marathon), a good swimmer, an expert thief, and a genius con artist. They can steal a dozen books from a top-security strongbox in the morning, discuss literature all afternoon, have dinner with the cream of society in the evening, and then stay up until midnight dancing, before stealing some more interesting tomes at three a.m. That's what a perfect Librarian would do. In practice, most Librarians would rather spend their time reading a good book. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

2 " 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. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

3 " And Irene hadn’t broken the letter of any ordinances – she hoped. She’d just jumped up and down on the spirit of them, then taken them down a dark alley and made some pointed suggestions at knife-point. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

4 " Maybe if Irene uses the Language—how did you get here? We’re down in the far end of chaos. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

5 " people who had lawyers just to prove how absolutely not guilty they were. (Of anything.) "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

6 " And, her conscience pointed out, leave an unconscious woman alone in the street—at night in a dangerous city. A woman whom Irene herself had drugged. Various words came to mind for this sort of behaviour. They were not nice words. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

7 " So, Lord Silver, to summarize: Kai is somewhere here, in a prison that can be reached only from this city, but you don’t know where the entrance is, or how to get in, or what the conditions inside may be—except in terms that a pseudo-Gothic melodramatic author would consider overblown. And you are, I presume, unwilling to be of any further assistance, in case it is traced back to you. Though if I am caught, we both know Lord and Lady Guantes will assume that you were to blame anyhow.” “Accurate on the whole,” Silver agreed. “Except for that comment on my prose style. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

8 " The idea of a hot bath hung in the future like the promise of Christmas or a new book in a favourite series. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

9 " Oh, I admit that not all stories have happy endings, but people prefer what they’re used to. If you were to actually ask them, nine out of ten would prefer a storybook existence to a mechanistic universe where happy endings never happen. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

10 " Irene hated trusting to luck. It was no substitute for good planning and careful preparation. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

11 " They are unchanging, because they have utterly become themselves and will never be otherwise. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

12 " Irene shuffled up a huge staircase of gilt and stucco, just behind a group of young scholars loudly discussing Petrarch. She walked past marble pillars and windows that looked out onto the piazza below. 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. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

13 " My life isn’t all running around and screaming, you know. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

14 " I plan for the worst,’ Silver said. ‘That way, at least I’m dressed for the occasion. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

15 " All right, Irene thought, I have officially met someone who makes even more reckless plans than I do. ‘This could indeed be the beginning of a beautiful friendship,’ she agreed, and she couldn’t help smiling. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

16 " We are what we make ourselves "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

17 " I plan for the worst,” Silver said. “That way, at least I’m dressed for the occasion. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

18 " . It was so full of light. The huge public square had what must be the Basilica at one end, topped with bulbous domes and covered with marble and mosaics. It was imposing and glorious and, yes, utterly beautiful. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)

19 " Do you doubt the Ten, my lord? "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)