“If you forget the joy of this day, then what joy you give to others will also be forgotten, and your life… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“Ours is the fellowship of strangers who know a secret that we cannot express. We are both of us broken, shattered, hollow… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“You must choose the life you live at the time you live it, Charlie.” — Claire North Copy Share Image
“When I am optimistic, I choose to believe that every life I lead, every choice I make, has consequence. That I am… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“What is the point of me? Either to change a world-many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“We are the seeds of the forest, we blaze so bright, no life is special. No life is special. No life is… — 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
“A funeral procession, the women scream until they fall down in a faint, the men hold them up, the boys cry silently… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“Hqve you never heard of priests proclaim that the meek will inherit the earth and wondered if kings of old didn't smile… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“Are you God, Dr August? Are you the only living creature that matters? Do you think, because you remember it, that your… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“It is said that there are three stages of life for those of us who live our lives in circles. These are… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“Sophia: Go with it? Harry: Don't fight against inevitability. Life is until it is not, so why get fussed? Don't hurt anyone,… — 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
