Subjunctive Quotes

“It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.”
― C.J. Cherryh

“The story of random number generation is itself quite a fascinating one, and would be an entire article in itself.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern