# Quote — Catherine Webb, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

> “Go with it?”…
>
> “Don’t fight against inevitability,” I translated loosely. “Life is until it is not, so why get fussed? Don’t hurt anyone, try not to give your dinner guests food poisoning, be clean in word and deed—what else is there? Just be a decent person in a decent world.”
>
> “Everyone’s a decent person,” she replied softly, “in their own eyes.”

- Author: [Catherine Webb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/catherine-webb.md)
- Book: [The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August](https://www.leafyquotes.com/catherine-webb/the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august.md)
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## More from this book

> Chapter 28 (p. 119; ellipsis as in the book)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/catherine-webb/the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august/chapter-28-p-119.md)

> The world is ending, as it always must. But the end of the world is getting faster.

p. 353 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/catherine-webb/the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august/the-world-is-ending.md)

> “I have to congratulate you,” she murmured as we walked, “on the thoroughness of your preparations. Every document and contact indicates that you are who you claim to be, a great achievement considering that you are not.”

p. 296 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/catherine-webb/the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august/i-have-to-congratulate.md)