Claire North Quotes

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

Luck is sometimes merciful. The Game never is.

For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This second is gone, too, the moment in which I spoke by your side. It is dead. Let it die.

After a night of drinking, she would be a pale, starling-sized creature, but now, in this place, she is moonlight in heels.

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all.

There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?

[We] need people who are kind by instinct, not by effort. But that is what we lack in this time. For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.

Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can put a big yes down for all of the above.

You must choose the life you live at the time you live it.

Forgive me, " I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.

Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...

Wow, that is so deep.'He meant it, of course.'You're really real, ' he added breathily. 'Say something else.'I decided he wasn't worth punching, and walked away.

The first two tracks were pop songs from the 1970s, sung in Danish in a style that was best described as Abba without joy.

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

We all die. We don't have to live our lives fearing it.

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...