“The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.”
“As the chant grew in volume she began to be conscious of the terrible potency of language, the sense that a name spoken is a summons and more than a summons, an act of creation, for a word shapes an idea, an idea shapes belief, and belief shapes the world. ”
“The presiding spirit of Welsh history has been the shape-shifter Gwydion the Magician, who always changed his shape and always stayed the same.”
“It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”
“Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.”