The mistakes of the past do not excuse the mistakes of the present. - Jim C. Hines

I knew the one thing that truly mattered. I knew it could be done.

You mean you just let him go?"
"What did you want me to do?" I snapped. "Castrate him on the spot? Execute him?"
"Both. Both is good.

This is the worst excess of conjecture and wishful thinking," snapped Jackson. "We don't know if Isaac is capable of any of this."
"He believes he is," said Bi Wei.
"I once met a woman who believed she was abducted by aliens who looked like the Teletubbies," Jackson shot back. "That doesn't make it true.