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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6) QUOTES

One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6) QUOTES

1 " For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

2 " the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

3 " 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'. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

4 " Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

5 " I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

6 " Inviting a goblin to cross your threshold was a recipe for disaster, and certainly worse than doing the same with a vampire. With the latter all you got was a nasty bite, but the company, the extraordinarily good sex and the funny stories more than made up for it—apparently. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

7 " Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

8 " What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

9 " She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

10 " Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

11 " ...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

12 " Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

13 " ...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

14 " Don't anyone move. . . I think we've driven into a mimefield. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

15 " Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

16 " Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a celebration. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop! "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

17 " To fail spectacularly is a loser's paradise. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

18 " Humans are the most gloriously bizarre creatures. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

19 " This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

20 " There is much unexplained in the world. It behoves one to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralised debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started. "

― Jasper Fforde , One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)