Dylan > Dylan's Quotes

“I want to take him down, down, to the cold archives beneath the temple, to the tunnles where we keep the past, to show him selfies and pictures of food, jokes and terrible puns in dead, archaic scripts, tell him, look, look - look at people living. Look how beautiful it is to be alive.”
― Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age

“God, but he lied beautifully; it was a masterclass. If I hadn't been concentrating so hard on my own deceit, I would have stood up and applauded.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Here's the history of the world for you.
Here's what the burning left behind.
You want gods, and all you get are people.”
― Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age

“Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you're not helping people, just servicing the machine.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“I know now that there is something dead inside me though I cannot remember exactly when it died.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“When I am optimistic, I choose to believe that every life I lead, every choice I make, has consequence. That I am not one Harry August but many, a mind flicking from parallel life to parallel life, and that when I die, the world carries on without me, altered by my deeds, marked by my presence.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Time is not wisdom; wisdom is not intellect.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“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

“His ignorance of the past was almost as profound as his ignorance of the future”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...”
― Claire North, The End of the Day

“All children in Madagascar were raised genderless and forbidden to choose a gender until reaching adulthood. Even then, many didn’t choose a single state of being. Some, like Jerico, found fluidity to be their nature. “I feel like a woman beneath the sun and the stars. I feel like a man under the cover of clouds,” Jerico had explained to the crew when assuming command. “A simple glance at the skies will let you know how to address me at any given time.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll