"Man kann die Geschichte nicht ändern, indem man sie umschreibt."
- Hans-Joachim Gehrke, In: Geschichte der Welt (Die Welt vor 600, Frühe Zivilisationen)

"Most people simply aren's unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown."
- Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

"What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta."
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

Let's hope that history does not always rhyme.

"Evil has no power but what we give it."
- Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale (When Women Were Warriors III)

"A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying."
- Nelson Mandela

"There is nothing in the world so permanent as a temporary emergency."
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon

I am a black cat full-grown. I bear the unluck that is blessing and curse. I see the silver lines of fate, the black lines of fate unraveled. I bear the mind that knows death and life, choice and destiny, the word and the book, and yet remains cat. I will do as I will do.
- Chr Willrich, Shadowdrop

"People who tell you not to be afraid of things are usually the first to get eaten by tigers. Fear helps us prepare. I say, gather your supplies, arm yourself, and make the dark afraid of you."
- Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists

"Terrorism is just . . . politics with bad anger management strategies."
- Carrie Vaughn, Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System, Clarkesworld Magazine 191

"I never minded being a vampire. You get to read a lot of books when you live forever, and draining the occasional incompetent scholar of blood is hardly a price too steep to pay."
- Lavie Tidhar, Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal

"The cleverest men in the country don't get themselves or their ideas into Parliament, because the blockheads are too many for 'em."
- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, 1876

Everybody needed a cup of tea sometimes. Just an hour or two to sit and do something nice, and then they could go back to whatever it was.
- Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot 1)

There needs to be an error code that means "I received your request but decided to ignore you."
- Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (Murderbot 3)