Failure Quote by Claire North

“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

“alone with the endless morning, and knew that the world was beautiful beyond naming.”

— Claire North

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.”

— Claire North

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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