“For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.” — Claire North Progress Copy Share Image
“The most it ever seems we know how to do with time, is to waste it.” — Claire North Know Copy Share Image
“Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.” — Claire North Freedom Copy Share Image
“You must choose the life you live at the time you live it, Charlie.” — Claire North Choice Copy Share Image
“I was six years old. I was seven hundred and fifty. I was being hunted.” — Claire North Hunted Copy Share Image
“I know now that there is something dead inside me though I cannot remember exactly when it died.” — Claire North Dead Copy Share Image
“only ice against which they can whisper, and who has any joy in scheming against winter herself? All” — Claire North Scheming Copy Share Image
“There is a black pit in the bottom of my soul that has no limit to its falling.” — Claire North Fall Copy Share Image
“In the end, he turned the radio on, and fell asleep to the sounds of either country or Western—he could never work… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“alone with the endless morning, and knew that the world was beautiful beyond naming.” — Claire North Endless 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 Racism 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 Hope 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… — Claire North Children 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 Afraid 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… — Claire North End of the world 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… — Claire North Faith Copy Share Image
“Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180, author of Meditations. Quoth said emperor: It is not death a man should fear, but he should fear… — Claire North Books 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can… — Claire North Airport 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 Clock Copy Share Image
“I know I have the capacity within me to be all of that again, to feel all of that again, and know… — Claire North Memory Copy Share Image
“In 1789 the French rebelled and found an emperor. The Americans found their freedom from the British and enslaved the Africans. The… — Claire North Arab spring 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… — Claire North Children 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 Dream Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or in genocide? I think… — Claire North Espionage Copy Share Image
“Words, rolling on. Sometimes the Harbinger of Death hears these words, words of house prices and commutes and the price of pasta… — Claire North Computers 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 Numb 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 Time 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… — Claire North Joy 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.… — Claire North British Public 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,… — Claire North Sent Poet Copy Share Image
“What is the point of you? The world is ending. Now it's up to you.” — Claire North Apocalypse Copy Share Image
