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“Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.”

Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer

Source: The Last Dragonslayer

“Defiance through compliance.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?”

“I don’t know—avant verrais?”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

“He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“… the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.”

Jasper Fforde book First Among Sequels

Source: First Among Sequels

“If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.”

Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

“The neanderthal experiment was simultaneously the high and low point of the genetic revolution. Successful in that a long-dead cousin of Homo sapien was brought back from extinction, yet a failure in that the scientists, so happy to gaze upon their experiments from their ever lofty ivory towers, had not seen so far as to consider the social implications that a new species of man might command in a world unvisited by their like for over 30 millennia. It was little surprise that so many neanderthals felt confused and unprepared for the pressures of modern life. It was Homo sapien at his least sapient.”

Jasper Fforde

Lost In A Good Book (2002), ch. 4a, p. 67

“Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.”

Jasper Fforde

Shades of Grey (2010), p206

“Miss Havisham had told me about Generics. They were created here in the Well to populate the books that were to be written. At the point of creation they were simply a human canvas without paint - blank like a coin, ready to be stamped with individualism. They had no history, no conflicts, no foibles - nothing that might make them either readable or interesting in any way. It was up to various institutions to teach them to be useful members of fiction. They were graded, too. A to D, one through ten. Any that were D-graded were like worker bees in crowds and busy streets. Small speaking parts were C-grades; B-grades usually made up the bulk of featured but not leading characters. These parts usually -but not always- went to the A-grades, handpicked for their skills at character projection and multidimensionality.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

The Well of Lost Plots (2003), ch.1, p. 11