Jasper Fforde: Trending quotes (page 2)

“You'll like it here; everyone ismad.”

“Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.”

“the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe”

“Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.”

“Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.”

“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.”

“…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.”

“Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.”

“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.”

“True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is…”

“Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.”

“What is there to forgive?… Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.”

“I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”

“If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote, I must be dafter than I look.”

“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.”

“History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.”

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

“Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?”