“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”
“He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.”
“It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .”
“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.”
“It wasn't a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human.”