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

Life went on. That was the terrible thing. They were ripped out of their world, their lives, their sense of who and what they were. Their history. They were killed, or made to watch the people they loved die. And then, at some point, they were hungry. Thirsty. They had to piss. Someone told a joke, and they laughed, however darkly. They washed dishes. Changed clothes. Held funerals. It felt like it should have stoppe

I think some important scientific questions have finally been answered. Alien life exists, and they are assholes.

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.