“The most it ever seems we know how to do with time, is to waste it.” — Claire North Copy Share Image
“You must choose the life you live at the time you live it, Charlie.” — Claire North Copy Share Image
“Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...” — Claire North Copy Share Image
“As a child, there is a moment when we see him for the very first time, and he has always been there… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“We have the privilege of seeing the present through the wisdom of the past, and frankly such an honor makes it very… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“Time was simple, is simple. We can divide it into simple parts, measure it, arrange dinner by it, drink whisky to its… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“I find that the only way I can survive is in the present tense. If I look at my past, I see… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“As a boy, I grew up in a time of invention, of aspiration and wonderful dreams, and to be a scientist, a… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“I could tell you that the past is the past, and nothing has any consequence, and I'm tired of a life where… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“She smiled and understood my meaning without it needing to be said. She leaned in close and murmured in my ear, ‘The world is… — Claire North Copy Share
“alone with the endless morning, and knew that the world was beautiful beyond naming.” — Claire North Copy Share
“My loss of faith was not revelatory, nor intensely distressing. It was a prolonged growth of resignation, one which the events of my life… — Claire North Copy Share
“Everyone who dies was once a child; every child once had a dream of something else; every child must die. It is important to… — Claire North Copy Share
“No one’s really racist any more, just as no one’s really sexist. They’ve just got their view about things, you see.” — Claire North Copy Share
“If you forget the joy of this day, then what joy you give to others will also be forgotten, and your life has no… — Claire North Copy Share
“What I don’t understand is that when the British public voted to name a research vessel Boaty McBoatface, the government said no. But when… — Claire North Copy Share
“She was crying, silently, holding my arm, crying. I let her cry a while, held her close, felt her snot and tears on my… — Claire North Copy Share
“Time was simple, is simple. We can divide it into simple parts, measure it, arrange dinner by it, drink whisky to its passage. We… — Claire North Copy Share
“As a boy, I grew up in a time of invention, of aspiration and wonderful dreams, and to be a scientist, a doctor, an… — Claire North Copy Share
“No, it’s … sometimes it’s that, but sometimes … I’m sent for an idea. In Greenland I was sent for a man, but I… — Claire North Copy Share
“Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can put a… — Claire North Copy Share
“In the end, he turned the radio on, and fell asleep to the sounds of either country or Western—he could never work out which… — Claire North Copy Share
