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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2) QUOTES

Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2) QUOTES

1 " Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

2 " I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts! "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

3 " So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now? "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

4 " The course of true love rarely runs smooth. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

5 " I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

6 " Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps? "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

7 " …Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

8 " I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

9 " I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

10 " We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

11 " La seguii, e constatai che quello scavo era di natura archeologica. Dei pioli conficcati nel terreno erano collegati da una cordicella, per delimitare l’area in cui quei volontarii picconavano il suolo, cercando di fare meno rumore possibile. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

12 " You're the Cheshire Cat, aren't you?' I asked.

'I was the Cheshire Cat,' he replied with a slightly aggrieved air. 'But they moved the county boundaries, so technically speaking I'm now the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat, but it doesn't have the same ring to it. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

13 " It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

14 " Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

15 " I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

16 " You'll like it here; everyone is quite mad. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

17 " How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark."

"A whale isn't a fish, Thursday."

"A whale shark is--sort of."

"All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish."

"A crayfish isn't a fish."

"A starfish, then."

"Still not a fish."

"This is a very odd conversation, Thursday. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

18 " I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

19 " Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day. "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

20 " What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?”

“I don’t know—avant verrais? "

― Jasper Fforde , Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)