Quotes from Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

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

You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?''Wow, ' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

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.

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar.

Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

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