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Lost in a Good Book

Name: Lost in a Good Book
Author: Jasper Fforde

Lost in a Good Book is an alternate history fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. It won the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association 2004 Dilys Award. It is the second in the Thursday Next series.

“I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!”

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“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.”

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

“I don’t know—avant verrais?”

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“I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.”

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

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“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.”

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“Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.”

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“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.”

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“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”

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“…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.”

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