Nick Harkaway

“We were deluged together in the raw, unbalanced Stuff of the universe. Inevitable consequence: My own little reification. I was made flesh,…

— Nick Harkaway

“Her eyes are very bright. She loves senses, loves the world. He finds that…admirable, and a bit daunting. I am a mole.…

— Nick Harkaway

“An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.”

— Nick Harkaway

If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

— Nick Harkaway

“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…

— Nick Harkaway

“I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid.”

— Nick Harkaway

“She has to admit privately that she may be mad. Although if so, it is a merciless, clear-sighted sort of madness and…

— Nick Harkaway

“Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely…

— Nick Harkaway

No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if…

— Nick Harkaway

“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying…

— Nick Harkaway

“Then he explained in a whisper that the plan was composed entirely of awesome. It was made and designed by the House…

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“Yes. Edie Banister has gone postal. A very British sort of postal which does not involve shouting, but rather a sudden and…

— Nick Harkaway

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

— Nick Harkaway

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people…

— Nick Harkaway

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the…

— Nick Harkaway

“let’s face it, as great a proportion of the dead are arseholes as the living.”

— Nick Harkaway

ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch…

— Nick Harkaway

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called…

— Nick Harkaway

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

— Nick Harkaway

“Mercer opens hi mouth to argue, and Bastion Banister chooses this moment to open his mouth and snap at the circling bee.…

— Nick Harkaway

“Dead like slipped on a bar of soap or like Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping?”

— Nick Harkaway

“He comes to the end of himself and finds, at the last, a piece of solid ground and a hard wall to…

— Nick Harkaway

“That went well," Christina murmured to him. "Pffaww," he agreed. "They're a pair! They don't like anything. They don't even like the…

— Nick Harkaway

“He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a bit vague and he waffles, but that…

— Nick Harkaway

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

— Nick Harkaway