"You can't." Saying it, Aziraphale realized, those words were as much for himself as they were for her. "None of us can."
That was patently untrue. Some of us can, but God and seers are different things entirely from the rest of the populous and most people, nobodies, somebodies, angels, and demons had to go about living their lives without any idea what lay ahead of them. They could make educated guesses, of course, or attempt to make plans, but the best laid plans...and all that.
"But we can do our best," he offered brightly. "We can do what is good, and kind, and considerate towards others, and we can hope. And sometimes, we can do that and still get it wrong, but it's not because we are a bad person; you're merely human." To err, after all. "But we do our best."
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That was patently untrue. Some of us can, but God and seers are different things entirely from the rest of the populous and most people, nobodies, somebodies, angels, and demons had to go about living their lives without any idea what lay ahead of them. They could make educated guesses, of course, or attempt to make plans, but the best laid plans...and all that.
"But we can do our best," he offered brightly. "We can do what is good, and kind, and considerate towards others, and we can hope. And sometimes, we can do that and still get it wrong, but it's not because we are a bad person; you're merely human." To err, after all. "But we do our best."