Titanium Noir

by Nick Harkaway

I also think Mullen shouldn’t have shot me and that nice things should be free to nice people and really expensive for assholes, but this is not the day when any of us gets what we want.

“Alas, we may strive for omniscience, but omnipresence is somewhat more problematic.”

Vice can be like that: it enjoys seeing the place where its degradation is indistinguishable from its triumph, and ecstasy swallows them both.

know objectively that it happens—I see it happen all the time—and yet death remains incomprehensible: the line where the meaning of things just stops, and the universe carries on.

You think of widows’ houses as full of pictures of the dead, but many times they’re not. Many times they look towards the future as if the past is just last winter’s snow.

These two are…tcha. Like if I would villain—which I would not, because I am quite law-abiding, but if I would—I would not villain with these guys with someone else’s dick.”