Quotes About Alternate History

#1. In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

Jeff Greenfield

#2. When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

Laura Anne Gilman

#3. History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

David Wojnarowicz

#4. Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

Kate Atkinson

#5. Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

Alexander Pope

#6. He pulled out his wallet and extracted a twenty-dollar bill, fastidiously folding it in half so that the crease cut across the face of Theodore Roosevelt, with its shining spectacles and its Chesire Cat grin.

Dexter Palmer

#7. They don't teach kidnapping at Eton, dad

Gwenn Wright

#8. Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one's adversaries to underestimate one's abilities."
~Sherlock Holmes

Stephanie Osborn

#9. In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false information, one absolute truth is the fact that Superman is Clark Kent. All the rest is always open to debate.

Umberto Eco

#10. His voice, when it came, was very soft, almost a whisper. I wouldn've thought you'd've figured that out by now.

Julie Kagawa

#11. None can be Tyrants but Cowards.

Mary Astell

#12. Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

Stephanie Osborn

#13. Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love,' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.

Sara Douglass

#14. Doesn't the thought of marryin' me give you an adrenaline rush?

Simone Elkeles

#15. To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule.

Auliq Ice

#16. I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul', said Neville. 'Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?' 'Because,' said Mary, 'when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold.

Sara Douglass

#17. Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Samuel Johnson

#18. My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like the Burberry show and the Live Lounge, so they understand the gravity of those things, but they're proud - it's cool.

James Bay

#19. Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#20. 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

Tom McCarthy

#21. A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement."
~Sherlock Holmes

Stephanie Osborn

#22. Shitting fucking bastard! Fuck off you massive cockwank!' - Misty Meanor, during a particularly stressful encounter.

Matthew Sylvester

#23. Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe

Gwenn Wright

#24. People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

Michelle Rodriguez

#25. Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

Robert Ferrigno

#26. Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

Pico Iyer