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84K QUOTES

84K QUOTES

1 " We all knew, of course. Everyone knows, but no one looks. We don’t look because if we look it makes us evil because we aren’t doing something about it, or it makes us sad because we can’t do anything about it, or it proves that we’re monsters when we always thought we were righteous because we won’t do anything about it. Either way, safer not to look. "

― Claire North , 84K

2 " I have lead a thoroughly despicable life. Or rather... not despicable. My evils have been ordinary evils. My sins against the world are daily, little sins that no one would question. I am a normal man. I am a normal man, and have done no wrong, and there is a place in hell waiting for me. "

― Claire North , 84K

3 " ... sometimes you wake and you remember that you will be an old, old man and that the one you love will die and you can't work out if they die or you first which would be more scary? Who will be strongest without love, alone, loveless, devoid? What is worse—for you to lose the one you love or for the one you love to be destroyed by losing you? "

― Claire North , 84K

4 " ...if people were scared of you then you were powerful, and if you were powerful, you mattered. Even if you didn't know what mattering was good for. "

― Claire North , 84K

5 " ...the secret to success wasn't about being right, merely about appearing to be more right than everybody else. "

― Claire North , 84K

6 " You met him and then you ran. Why did you run?"
"Two people chased me. I don't know what else you're meant to do when that happens."
"You could have assumed they were with the authorities."
"I am the authorities, Mr. Markse, and they weren't with me. Given that you managed to work out who I was, why didn't you just arrest me?"
A little shrug. "Because as you say, you are the authorities. Why would I arrest someone who might be on my side? "

― Claire North , 84K

7 " wannabe somebody in a nobody world, "

― Claire North , 84K

8 " You just make like a heron and maybe one day you'll catch some fish.
A cormorant can count to seven. Put a ring around its neck and send it catching fish and it will remember that the seventh it catches will be its to feast on.
Owls are actually very stupid birds, but when something moves! That's when evolution does its thing. "

― Claire North , 84K

9 " Tell Philip Arnslade that I'm going to blow his fucking brains out. "

"Mr. Arnslade will be most relieved. "

― Claire North , 84K

10 " I have led a thoroughly despicable life. Or rather … not despicable. My evils have been ordinary evils. My sins against the world are daily, little sins that no one would question. I am a normal man, and have done no wrong, and there is a place in hell waiting for me. "

― Claire North , 84K

11 " Even atheists pray when they’re gonna lose a thing they love and know they can’t stop it. It’s the knowing they can’t stop it that makes them do the whispering. "

― Claire North , 84K

12 " Did you think that kindness is born of terror? "

― Claire North , 84K

13 " I made some choices, of course, but they weren't defiant acts of judgement. They were made because the alternatives were significantly worse. "

― Claire North , 84K

14 " I've always known. No one ever says it. We stop before the hard things. We never finish anything that might matter at all. And you're right. That's how it happens. That's how it always happened. "

― Claire North , 84K

15 " A castle on the hill, layers of different worries built into its architecture. "

― Claire North , 84K

16 " Running changes the city. Sight and sound blazes into slithering sentience, the river is moving black popping with reflected lights of sodium orange, white, green and yellow. The Thames slurps its way down the thin tidal beach below the high walls of the embankment catching on muddy sand, belching wet gloop, the sky is a brown smear stained with bruised rushing clouds, buses unnaturally slow as they crawl across the Westminster Bridge; the Houses of Parliament are all illuminated acrylic blaze and deep recesses of shadow, strips and nooks of blackness where only the pigeons can penetrate. "

― Claire North , 84K