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“I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“I have the death sentence in seven genres.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.”

Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“You many have noticed I have a temper… but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

“I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.”

Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer

Source: The Last Dragonslayer

“Were you listening to a word I said '
'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. 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.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing