Nick Harkaway

“I am Nemesis, meting out just deserts”

— Nick Harkaway

“Bollocks to should.”

— Nick Harkaway

“I'm really sorry I ate your dog.”

— Nick Harkaway

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

— Nick Harkaway

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

— Nick Harkaway

“Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else?”

— Nick Harkaway

“It is perfect in no respect save that it functions excellently in all.”

— Nick Harkaway

“Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl.”

— Nick Harkaway

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

— Nick Harkaway

“She sighs again. It’s so odd to be a supervillain, and at her age, too.”

— Nick Harkaway

“Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men.”

— Nick Harkaway

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

— Nick Harkaway

“He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they…

— Nick Harkaway

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

“That's probably why she has added the two severed heads to the uprights of the throne. They lend her an undeniable air…

— Nick Harkaway

“Faith has always struck him as either a tremendous gift or an appalling deception, depending on whether there’s a God or not.”

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“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

“The game is fixed. Alwayas has been, always will be, and the only way out for a man is the gangster's road.”

— Nick Harkaway

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

— Nick Harkaway

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to…

— Nick Harkaway

“It was his experience that one did poorly by involving oneself in matters of local religion. The world looked one way if…

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“It had not occurred to him that he might win this fight. Winning a fight, in his mind, is associated with some…

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

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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

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes…

— Nick Harkaway

Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and…

— Nick Harkaway

“Which knew and understood and did not shy away from the understanding that there would be pain. Which could accept shattering, could…

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“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

“He hates chain stores and fast-food restaurants, mass-produced items and fashionable clothes - any instance of something that is repeated across the…

— Nick Harkaway

“I need bruschetta (that's "broo-SKET-uh," not "brushetter," a slender piece of ciabatta toasted and brushed with garlic and oil and covered in…

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“Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con…

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“Joe, you did fine,” Mercer says. “You were great. But there is no question that we are in the shit. We are…

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“Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?" Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely's that nonsense which…

— Nick Harkaway

“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

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

— Nick Harkaway

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

— Nick Harkaway

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

— Nick Harkaway

“You have to worry about someone even mimes find creepy. I”

— Nick Harkaway

“A warsheep would be a cross between a dolphin and a small, limber elephant.”

— Nick Harkaway