Nick Harkaway 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

“Destiny' is the state of perfect mechanical causation in which everything is the consequence of everything else. If choice is an illusion, what's life? Consciousness without volition. We'd all be passengers, no more real than model trains.”
― Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

“Joshua Joseph had no great hatred of modern technology - he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the machine. Above all he mistrusts duplication. A rare thing becomes a commonplace thing. A skill becomes a feature. The end is more important than the means. The child of the soul gives place to a product of the system.”
― Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

“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

“Regno Lönnrot – torn no longer”
― Nick Harkaway, Gnomon