“Perhaps there was another life, not so sad, that I missed somehow this time, and will have in another world.” SadAfterlifeAnother LifeAlternate UniverseIn Another LifeGnomonNick Harkaway Book:Gnomon Source: 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.” MindMetaphorGnomonNick Harkaway Book:Gnomon Source: Gnomon
“Mind expressed as text sits quiet like a fire under moss.” WritingMindBooksMetaphorTextGnomonNick Harkaway Book:Gnomon Source: 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.” LoveHeavenAfterlifeGnomonNick Harkaway Book:Gnomon Source: Gnomon