“My history is the history of things imagined and not-happened.”
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another.”
“It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.”
“If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.”
“History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”
“History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.”