Gnomon Quotes

“Perhaps there was another life, not so sad, that I missed somehow this time, and will have in another world.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

“I am forever confounded by those who would establish a way of doing things that all others must follow or be deemed unhappy. Sometimes the best things are found in unlikely places.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

“Or perhaps the afterlife embraces the aspects of ourselves that love in all their facets, and that part of Michael's mother that did love me is grown into a whole self, and taps her feet impatiently on the step of the wondrous heavenly city.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

“The pathways of old Greece were drenched in blood, after all.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

“Stella is a mask trying to make itself real. A bed stitching itself a quilt. I wonder if all minds build themselves autonomously out of whatever rags and bones are left lying around, and she—her original being erased or broken—is just doing what we all do, a little late renewal in her own skull.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

“Mind expressed as text sits quiet like a fire under moss.”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

“...There was more to the mind than a robot and a poet fighting for control of a beast.”
― Nick Haraway

“What am I going to do?

I am Gnomon, sometimes called the Murdering Angel, occasionally the Last Redoubt. I’m going to live forever in the skull of the next universe, and the next, and the next, until I’ve got universes all around me like a turducken, and maybe sooner or later I’ll figure out a simpler way of dealing with the problem, or maybe finally the next universe will just see me, standing there dressed in the skin and bones of all the previous ones, and get the message and fuck off.

Why, what are you going to do?”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon