People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
Terry PratchettโฆWe were born vampires." "I thought you became โ" "โ vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, itโs an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eatโฆ now what is it you eat? Oh yes, chocolateโฆ you donโt want to turn it into another Agnes Nitt, do you? Less chocolate to go around." He sighed. "Oh dear, superstition, superstition everywhere we turn.
Terry PratchettBooks bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it.
Terry PratchettThe storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates.
Terry Pratchett