“I don't want to make a mistake," said the Will softly. "Better not to make a decision than to make a mistake."
"The whole House is going to fall down if you don't make a decision!”

—  Garth Nix

Arthur argued.
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Grim Tuesday (2004), p. 319.

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