# Quote — James S. A. Corey, The Mercy of Gods

> He hadn’t thought about it. It was a crisis, and in a crisis you did what needed doing. Stopping to think was a short path to panic. He didn’t have time for that.

- Author: [James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md)
- Book: [The Mercy of Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods.md)
- Page: 87
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/he-hadnt-thought

## More from this book

> He had a brief but vivid memory of being seven years old at his grandmother’s vineyard in Nortcoor, looking into the night sky and seeing it for the first time as infinity towering above him like God, only worse because it was real.

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/he-had-a-brief.md)

> The end-of-year celebration was different. It was a nested series of lies. A minefield scattered with gold nuggets, opportunity and disaster in visibly mingled.

p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/the-end-of-year-celebration.md)

> “You know what this is. This is a sign.”
>
> “A sign,” he said.
>
> “The tools we needed to take on our new project, given to us exactly when we needed them. It’s the universe telling us that Ostencour’s plan is the right thing to do.”
>
> “Or the natural playing out of consequences,” Campar said, trying for lightness. “Hard to tell those apart sometimes.”

p. 342 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/you-know-what.md)