The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3)

by John Scalzi

She was just a speck of animated carbon that would be eternally inanimate soon enough, so might as well go ahead and have another muffin, or lay that cute redhead, or whatever.

they embarked on a journey of five distinct stages: Denial. Denial. Denial. Fucking Denial. Oh shit everything is terrible grab what you can and run.

This is literally how I feel about the world sometimes.

Lies do not in themselves lead to poor outcomes, nor does truth in every circumstance lead to good ones. As with so many things, context matters.”

This reminds me of the conversation regarding intent and outcome. If you had good intentions but it resulted in a bad outcome, how do you analyze that to make sure that you don’t make the same mistake again?