# Beyond the Gap

- Author: [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md)
- Quotes: 25
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap

## Quotes

> If they had lawyers instead of teeth, they’d be as bad as people.

p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/if-they-had.md)

> From what I’ve seen, people who brag a lot are usually trying to convince themselves even more than other people.

p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/from-what-ive.md)

> Believe worked well enough when a man could not measure it against facts. But when he could…Facts crushed to belief like a mammoth crushing a vole.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/believe-worked-well.md)

> “By God, you are a hateful man!”
>
> “Anyone who tells you anything you don’t want to hear is a hateful man,” Hamnet answered.

p. 106 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/by-god-you.md)

> If you were half as funny as think you are, you’d be twice as funny as you really are.

p. 229 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/if-you-were.md)

> If barbarians recognized that they were barbarians, they wouldn’t be so barbarous any more.

p. 232 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/if-barbarians-recognized.md)

> What people believed often turned out to be true just because they believed it. Charlatans and mages were quick to take advantage of that.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/what-people-believed.md)

> He didn’t care what she thought, and, in not caring, he felt as if a curse were lifted from his back.

p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/he-didnt-care.md)

> Mosquitoes laid eggs in those ponds and then rose in buzzing, biting swarms. Sometimes the clouds of them were thick enough to dim the sun. It was as if the soul of a vampire were reincarnated in a million beings instead of just one.

p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/mosquitoes-laid-eggs.md)

> Hamnet Thyssen wondered if Witigis was a holy man or simply a madman. His vacant features didn’t promise much in the way of brains.

p. 84 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/hamnet-thyssen-wondered.md)

> “Mammoths make me believe in God,” Trasimund said… “How could mammoths make themselves? God had to do it.”
>
> “You could say the same thing about mosquitoes.” Eyvind Torfinn punctuated the observation by slapping. “You could even say God liked mosquitoes better than mammoths, because he made so many more of them.”

p. 150 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/mammoths-make-me-believe.md)

> If Earl Eyvind wanted to talk nonsense, he was welcome to, as far as Hamnet was concerned.
>
> If he wanted anyone else to take him seriously when he did…that was another story altogether.

p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/if-earl-eyvind.md)

> “You believe in reincarnation, then?” Eyvind Torfinn asked eagerly. “Have you evidence to support your belief?”

p. 170 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/you-believe-in-reincarnation.md)

> A man who gets angry at the truth will have a hard time in life, don’t you think?

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/a-man-who.md)

> “Knowledge is strange,” Eyvind Torfinn said. “You never can be sure ahead of time what you may need. Someone who is going to a strange place will carry different tools on his belt. Should he not carry different tools in his head as well?”

p. 29 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/knowledge-is-strange.md)

> “And do you know of opossums? Have they come this far north?”
>
> “I have seen one or two.” Sarus made a face. “Horrible things, like big rats with pointed faces.”

p. 59 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/and-do-you.md)

> “Foolishness,” Ulric Skakki said. “Everything that goes on between men and women is full of foolishness.”

p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/foolishness-ulric-skakki.md)

> Hopes were only shadows that too often vanished in the pitiless light of reality.

p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/hopes-were-only.md)

> Women are what made me the way I am now. I do not believe the illness is also the cure.

p. 149 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/women-are-what.md)

> Liv worried less about how important other people thought she was and more about things that really mattered.

p. 214 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/liv-worried-less.md)

> Ulric Skakki’s smile was so charming, it made Hamnet distrust him on sight—as if he didn’t already.

p. 38 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/ulric-skakkis-smile.md)

> He thought she was the most wonderful woman in the world. Of course he did—she agreed with him.

p. 142 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/he-thought-she.md)

> “And if you don’t bet, how do you expect to win?”
>
> Hamnet Thyssen didn’t look at things that way. To him, not betting meant you couldn’t lose. He hadn’t even thought of winning.

p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/and-if-you.md)

> “Sometimes I think I don’t know everything that’s going on,” Ulric Skakki said in tones full of mock self-pity.
>
> Count Hamnet reached out and set a consoling hand on his arm. “Don’t worry about it. Sometimes I don’t think you know what‘s going on, either.”

p. 211 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/sometimes-i-think.md)

> And Ulric was a man of parts, no doubt about it. Just what the parts added up to…Yes, that was a different question.

p. 10 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/and-ulric-was.md)