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1 " Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. "
― Jasper Fforde , First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
2 " If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution. "
― Jasper Fforde , Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
3 " Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. "
4 " Dead. Never been that before. Not even once. "
5 " Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. "
― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
6 " I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts! "
7 " Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. "
― Jasper Fforde
8 " Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas. "
9 " For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. "
― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
10 " the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. "
11 " I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you. "
― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
12 " I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind. "
― Jasper Fforde , Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)
13 " Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me. "
14 " Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea. "
15 " Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse. "
16 " How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Perkins.'Right. "
― Jasper Fforde , The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
17 " Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. "
18 " Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head. "
― Jasper Fforde , The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next #3)
19 " Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. "
20 " Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'. "
