Quotes from Jasper Fforde

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.

Quark!--the Quarkbeast

It was loopholery at its very best.

You'll pass or my name's not Jennifer Strange." "Your name's not Jennifer Strange." "What?" "You're a foundling. You don't know what your name is.

Eso es lo malo de las premoniciines, que tienen la molesta costumbre de hacerse realidad.

He jerked a thumb in the direction of the baby on the stretcher, who had put his fingers in his mouth and stopped yelling. 'That was the driver. Before the accident he was thirty-one. By the time we got here he was eight – in a few hours he'll be nothing more than a damp patch on the blanket.

The Spontaneous Anthropomorphic Event had taken place before I was born, so rabbits talking, wearing summer dresses or driving cars never seemed that unusual to me.

Bienvenido a Kazam (...), donde los horrores más inimaginables comparten el día a día con la perplejidad absoluta y el azar más rabioso. Definirlo como manicomio sería un insulto hasta para el más desquiciado de los manicomios.

7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

Las premoniciones se cumplen porque la gente quiere que se cumplan. Un observador siempre cambia el resultadi de un acontecimiento; millines de observadores, como en este caso, lo garantizan.

No te creas a quien te diga que el futuro ya está escrito. Lo mas que puede hacer un profeta es ofrecerte la versión más probable de los futuros acontecimientos, pero depende de nosotros aceptar el futuro tal y como es, o cambiarlo. Es fácil dejarse llevar por la corriente, pues para nadar en contra hay que ser muy valiente.

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer—perhaps more.

I see you've met Patrick of Ludlow, I replied, trying to stifle a giggle, for Tiger was thirty feet up in the shabby atrium , perched high upon a chandelier. How long have you been up there? Half an hour, he answered crossly, with only a lot of dust and the Transient Moose for company.

It's about good copy and ensuring that cases can be made into top-notch documentaries on the telly. Public approval is the all-important currency these days, and police budgets ebb and flow on the back of circulation and viewing figures.

Humans are more or less identical except for a few peculiar habits generally delineated by geographic circumstances and historical precedent. But essentially, they´re all identical and reading from the same rulebook. To get along you have to appreciate the rules, but also know that other people know the rules - and that they know that you know the rules. Get it?

Father liked word games. He was fourteen times world Scrabble champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

The dismantling of S0-27 had some peculiar and unforeseen consequences, not least the legalizing of lethal force within libraries "for the maintenance of the collections and public order." Originally intended as a deterrent to thieves, the legislation quickly became known as the "Shush Law," when overenthusiastic librarians invoked a "violent intervention" for loud talking. Libraries have never been quieter, and theft and vandalism dropped by 72 percent.

But since anagram-related clues are now inadmissible as evidence, we sent the pork pie off for DNA analysis and managed to pinpoint the pie shop where it was purchased.

For God's sake, Mother," he said in an exasperated tone, "is there nothing dumb, daft or dangerous that you haven't tried at some point?

We require only a grenade launcher, six pounds of industrial-strength licorice, two spells of Class VIII complexity, a shipping container, a side of bacon, an automobile, several homing snails, a ladder, and two people to act as bait.

Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly, and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.

Much that we had appreciated about one another had been left unsaid. In humor, in life and in love, we had understood.

Remember, Thursday, that scientific thought – indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else – is just like the fashions that we wear – only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.