“Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180, author of Meditations. Quoth said emperor: It is not death a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. And also: You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the peoples of our lands, but merely peoples...” — 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 Image
“alone with the endless morning, and knew that the world was beautiful beyond naming.” — Claire North Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.” — Claire North Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
