The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1) QUOTES

2 " Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medals
and the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me. "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

4 " Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

6 " There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one... "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

8 " The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is... "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

10 " Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

12 " I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton--go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday--I don't know why--and my father had no name at all--his identity and existence had been scrubbed by the ChronoGuard after he went rogue. To all intents and purposes he didn't exist at all. It didn't matter. He was always Dad to me... "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

14 " No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems as though the Goliath Corporation is falling far short of its promises of fairness and altruism. We are finding ourselves now in the unfortunate position of continuing to pay back a debt that has long since been paid--with interest... "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

16 " Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life. The barrier was soft, pliable and, for a moment, thanks to the kindness of a stranger and the power of a good storytelling voice, I made the short journey--and returned. "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

18 " Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand or so Samuel Colleridges, five hundred Percy Shelleys, the same of Wordsworth and Keats, and a handful of Drydens. Such mass name-changing could have problems in law enforcement. Following an incident in a pub where the assailant, victim, witness, landlord, arresting officer and judge had all been called Alfred Tennyson, a law had been passed compelling each namesake to carry a registration number tattooed behind the ear. It hadn't been well received--few really practical law-enforcement measures ever are. "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

20 " when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life. "

― Jasper Fforde , The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)