Katrice’s Reviews > The Mercy of Gods > Status Update

It was a crisis, and in a crisis you did what needed doing. Stopping to think was a short path to panic.

If experience had taught him anything, it was that first guesses were almost always disappointing. Data collection and analysis took time.

Nothing would be made better by being drunk. But then, nothing could be made much worse, either.

Us’ is a big word. You can fit surprises in it.”

We can hope for the best without being too specific about it.

Small moments, unnoticed at the time, change the fate of empires.