“History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.”

“A broken clock is right two times a day.”

“Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day.""Not in the history books," said Valentine."Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.”

“For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.”

“History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.”

“Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human history is an eyeblink compared to the billions of years the stars have shone?”

“And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.”