“They blew up a library. 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.”

—  Genevieve Cogman

Source: The Lost Plot (2017), Chapter 7 (p. 89)

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