228 Quotes by Nick Harkaway

All stories are one story, in the end.

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it’s so hard to do just one.

It was his experience that one did poorly by involving oneself in matters of local religion. The world looked one way if you believed, and another if you did not, and that was all there was to it.

Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the future there was a really amazing planet where they’d evolved into people and lived in harmony with a variety of hyper-intelligent bee. Evolution. Thousands and thousands of years of tiny changes could turn little burning sparks of chemistry into people, into monsters and angels and even human beings.

I am Nemesis, meting out just deserts.

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can’t get the map to get off my page, don’t want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that’s your own.

Never mind, never mind, let’s get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I’ve brought my most alarming teeth!

If Pippa Middleton and Megan Fox had announced their intention to marry during a live theatrical production of Fifty Shades of Grey starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and then taken off their clothes to reveal their bodies tattooed with the text of the eighth Harry Potter novel, they might just have approached this level of frenzy. But probably not, the boy said, because not everyone liked Benedict Cumberbatch.

He lounged and exhaled, and felt some small part of himself relax, like the moment when the elastic band on a child’s toy plane, wound and wound until the twisting redoubles upon itself and then let go to power the propeller, spasms once and releases that second layer of knots. He.