i’m well beyond you now, and travelling very fast

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One of many sentences in HtN that keep me up at night

Get ready to never sleep again, because I'm here to remind you that line comes not long after this:

I'm absolutely enamored with this line and all the layers we can peel back from it. On the surface, we can read this as that falling in love marked a turning point for Harrow from which she distinguishes "before" and "after."

But... there was another important event in her life from which she can delineate a "before" and "after." And that event was very much someone falling, but it wasn't Harrow.

To keep chipping away at this verbiage, the "two separate halves" is intriguing here because of how many ways we can split these halves. She now quite literally shares her life with Gideon, and even at the end of NtN we see her allude to this with her comment about being "one half-dead." There are also the references to her former self vs her current self. Even the very structure of the book can be taken as two halves: the timeline of the living, and Canaan House (Harrow's Version).

I would, of course, be remiss to point out that her life is not simply considered demarcated by love, but broken. And what is it, exactly, that she says to Ianthe before carving herself into this multitude of halves?