Jasper Fforde Quotes

Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke...

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ...

I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees.

Well, that's it." I said after we had waited for another five minutes and found ourselves still in a state of pleasantly welcome existence. "The ChronoGuard has shut itself down and time travel is as it should be: technically, logically, and theoretically...impossible." "Good thing, too," reply Landon. "It always made my head ache. In fact, I was thinking of doing self help book for science-fiction novelists eager to write about time travel. It would consist of a single word: Don't.

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.