# Quote — Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

> “You’re taking this very well,” Goma said.
>
> Eunice gave a semi-shrug. “Experience. You can fight the odds up to a point, but sooner or later you have to face reality. The universe doesn’t care about temper tantrums or pity.”

- Author: [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md)
- Book: [Poseidon's Wake](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake.md)
- Page: 485
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#Poseidon's_Wake_(2015)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/youre-taking-this

## More from this book

> Believe me, Kanu—the one thing you don’t do in emergencies is think things through. Thinking things through gets you a headstone and a nice epitaph. She thought things through. See how that worked out for her.

p. 601 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/believe-me-kanu-the.md)

> We have all made mistakes. The mark of intelligence is to learn from them, and not be bound by the errors of the past.

p. 437 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/we-have-all.md)

> “And when do we abandon negotiation and start hitting each other with increasingly large sticks?” Ru said.
>
> “Only when we’ve exhausted all the other options,” Vasin said.

p. 453 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/and-when-do-we-abandon.md)