“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
“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
“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
“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
“The most it ever seems we know how to do with time, is to waste it.” — Claire North Time 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 Children 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
“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
“only ice against which they can whisper, and who has any joy in scheming against winter herself? All” — Claire North Winter 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 Time 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 Beautiful 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 Connection Copy Share Image
“Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?” — Claire North Ignorance Copy Share Image
“That's a really nice thought and I'm grateful for it, but there comes a point when one realizes that gratification of the… — Claire North Emotional baggage Copy Share Image
“humanity has changed into something new and it is brutal. It is ugly” — Claire North Nature of man 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 Death Copy Share Image
“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our… — Claire North Memory Copy Share Image
“Ours is the fellowship of strangers who know a secret that we cannot express.” — Claire North Copy Share Image
“I know it doesn’t sound very noble, Harry, but then neither does damaging yourself for the sakes of others, as you will… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“All the bad publicity they brought down on us, yes, it came, and yes, it hurt us—for a day. That’s how long… — Claire North Attention Copy Share Image
“Every human grief you will ever experience has been experienced by humans living and humans yet to come. There is no readiness… — Claire North Death Copy Share Image