Quotes from Jasper Fforde

Life, I decided, would be good, and more than that, unusual .

Information can liberate but also imprisonate.

I had learned from my mother's many letters that Mycroft had invented a method for sending pizzas by fax

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Those that see to much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

You've got a face longer than a Dickens novel. What's the problem?

She had drawn circles around her eyes, which were joined by a line across the bridge of her nose. It was a traditional mark of her calling, but no one knew why.

Vernham Deane, resident cad of The Squire of High Potternews

Sort of like using the Jabberwock to frighten children, yes?" "Well, not really," replied Deane thoughtfully, "because there is a Jabberwock. Frightfully nice fellow—good at fly-fishing and plays the bongos. I'll introduce you sometime.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

I was driving, which might have been unusual anywhere but here in the Kingdom of Hereford, which was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age. That explained why I'd had a license since I was thirteen, while some were still failing to make the grade at forty.

Have you been attending church in London, Sis?" "I don't really have the time, Joff." "We make time, Sis." I sighed. He was right.

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.

I . . . I . . . didn't know I could do this." "What you mean is that you did know that you couldn't—it's quite a different thing.

The name's Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.

He thought for a moment. "Perhaps the Bennett family could do with some thinning . . ." "Pride and Prejudice!?" yelled Mycroft. "You heartless monster!

Take the first had had and that that in the book by way of example, explained Lady Cavendish. You would have thought that that first had had had had good occasion to be seen as had , had you not? Had had had approval but had had had not; equally it is true to say that that that that had had approval but that that other that that had not.

All three were experts, and all three had conflicting views. I was reminded of Clarke's Second Law of Egodynamics: 'For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

The problem with pianos," I began, "is that there aren't enough to go around. Lots of people in the BookWorld play them, they frequently appear in the narrative, and they're often used as plot devices. Yet for an unfathomable reason that no one can fully explain, there are only fifteen to cover the entire BookWorld.

Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny, Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy, Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation, Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Aside from the Parker Brothers' celebrated geochromatic view of the Previous World, it was the only pre-Epiphanic map known. But somehow its rarity wasn't enough to make it interesting, and we stared blankly for some minutes at the faded parchment, hoping to either misunderstand it on a deeper level or at least get our money's worth.

Always expect a kick in the teeth," said Millon, "so that when you get a slap in the chops, it seems like a triumph.

Smart girls give me the horn too," said Gavin sadly. "But they always ignore me. Tuesday ignores me.