The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North

“the past is the past. You are alive today. That is all that matters. You must remember, because it is who you are, but as it is who you are, you must never, ever regret. To regret your past is to regret your soul.”

Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you’re not helping people, just servicing the machine.”

kind by instinct, not by effort. But that is what we most lack, in this time. For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters any more.”

The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your eyes sharp to those few souls who stagger by, daring them to believe that you are not, in fact, more frightening than they are.

“Mankind has learned to carve with the tools of nature, but can’t yet see the sculpture it will create,”