“let’s face it, as great a proportion of the dead are arseholes as the living.” — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up.… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“I do not know, at this point, whether Joshua Joseph Spork is the man of my life. He could be. I have… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“The interesting thing, to the Sergeant, was how these stories were at least in one way quite true to life: you didn’t… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Something else emerges from this discussion about us as human individuals: we're not fixed, stable intellects riding along peering at the world… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“This, not incidentally, is another perfect setting for deindividuation: on one side, the functionary behind a wall of security glass following a… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“We were deluged together in the raw, unbalanced Stuff of the universe. Inevitable consequence: My own little reification. I was made flesh, and in… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Her eyes are very bright. She loves senses, loves the world. He finds that…admirable, and a bit daunting. I am a mole. I am… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.” — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all. — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“She has to admit privately that she may be mad. Although if so, it is a merciless, clear-sighted sort of madness and not at… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon's… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Then he explained in a whisper that the plan was composed entirely of awesome. It was made and designed by the House of Awesome,… — nick harkaway Copy Share Image
“Yes. Edie Banister has gone postal. A very British sort of postal which does not involve shouting, but rather a sudden and total reverse… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
