“Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.”
“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I just thought of it as past and future history.”
“Guns aren't just history's props and agents: they're history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside the empty shells of past ”
“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very same events. You cannot.”
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
“The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.”