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The only time we get to fight the powers of darkness is during one of the kingdom's frequent power cuts — Jasper Fforde

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. — Jasper Fforde

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you. — Jasper Fforde

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

Businessman, philanthropist, large egg. — Jasper Fforde

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do. — Jasper Fforde

The best plans are always the simplest. — Jasper Fforde

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash. — Jasper Fforde

No, I pay the newsagent. And for someone so pernickety about whose business is whose, you're asking a lot of very personal questions. — Katie Fforde

Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope — Jasper Fforde

I wished I could share my own optimism. — Jasper Fforde

Death cannot be avoided forever, but it can be postponed - in that respect it's very like the washing up. — Jasper Fforde

I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats. — Jasper Fforde

If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death. — Jasper Fforde

I wouldn't accept your help if I was blind and needed guidance across a six-lane highway. Now please go away! — Katie Fforde

We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble. — Jasper Fforde

Take no heed of her," explained Jones apologetically. "She reads a lot of books. — Jasper Fforde

Most of Mycroft's ideas were far too dangerous to even think about, much less let loose on a world unprepared for hyper-radical thought. — Jasper Fforde

Male guilt avoidance syndrome,' explained my father. 'It's a recognised medical condition by 2054. — Jasper Fforde

All those words,' she whispered, 'so diligently placed together, and so pointlessly torn apart. — Jasper Fforde

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

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

I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder ... I'm an average man ... with a truly extraordinary wife — Jasper Fforde

Made no fuss and helped around the house without making a song and dance about it. She'll make Dr Fforde a good wife, reflected Aunt Leticia. — Betty Neels

Humans are the most gloriously bizarre creatures. — Jasper Fforde

Bah!" exclaimed Rochester. "Pixies both! Begone with you; we will talk later! — Jasper Fforde

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde

I have the death sentence in seven genres. — Jasper Fforde

The opposition Prevailingwind Party led by Alfredo Traficcone — Jasper Fforde

Words are like leaves, ... like people really, fond of their own society. — Jasper Fforde

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations. — Jasper Fforde

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. — Jasper Fforde

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

Sometimes living in the BookWorld is like living in Legoland. — Jasper Fforde

You'll like it here; everyone is quite mad. — Jasper Fforde

I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them. — Jasper Fforde

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

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse. — Jasper Fforde

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. — Jasper Fforde

[I]appreciate a woman who knows when she's being coerced — Jasper Fforde

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas. — Jasper Fforde

Always expect a kick in the teeth," said Millon, "so that when you get a slap in the chops, it seems like a triumph. — Jasper Fforde

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own. — Jasper Fforde

Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point. — Jasper Fforde

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film. — Jasper Fforde

The trip back home was uneventful and over in only twelve words. — Jasper Fforde

Don't you own a dodo? — Jasper Fforde

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now? — Jasper Fforde

to get in on both sides, and there's space for a — Katie Fforde

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. — Jasper Fforde

Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about, — Jasper Fforde

Defiance through compliance. — Jasper Fforde

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. — Jasper Fforde

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one. — Jasper Fforde

Mary? said an officer who was carrying a large potted plant in the manner of someone who thinks it is well outside his job description. — Jasper Fforde

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them. — Jasper Fforde

She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved. — Katie Fforde

...a standing ovation from five-year-olds is not to be sniffed at. — Jasper Fforde

If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared. — Jasper Fforde

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says ... it's payback time! — Jasper Fforde

We have it on good authority that they might disguise it as a double entendre in a bedroom farce and deliver it up the rear entrance at Comedy. — Jasper Fforde

He said you were very dangerous."
"No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth. — Jasper Fforde

In order to fail, first you have to try. — Jasper Fforde

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. — Jasper Fforde

Class clowns become actors. — Jasper Fforde

Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. — Jasper Fforde

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing. — Jasper Fforde

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. — Jasper Fforde

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened. — Jasper Fforde

Besides, I punched him in the eye. — Jasper Fforde

The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt. — Jasper Fforde

Were you listening to a word I said '
'I kind of switched off when you drew breath. — Jasper Fforde

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. — Jasper Fforde

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres. — Jasper Fforde

Jack said nothing. It was time to start putting his plan into action. Then he remembered: He didn't have one. — Jasper Fforde

Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy? — Jasper Fforde

I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg. — Jasper Fforde

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest. — Jasper Fforde

If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams. — Jasper Fforde

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

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

People don't change just because you know more about them. — Jasper Fforde

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like. — Jasper Fforde

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way. — Jasper Fforde

Strive for the Long Now — Jasper Fforde

Every book should have a romance. — Jasper Fforde

The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe — Jasper Fforde

If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad - — Jasper Fforde

There were seven thermonuclear devices? queried Parks, who had latched on to Jack's outlandish explanation without too much difficulty, as should you. — Jasper Fforde

... the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow. — Jasper Fforde

I collect ex-boyfriends
and more than five, at last count. — Jasper Fforde

If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little. — Jasper Fforde

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

We all aspire to be ourselves, an original character in a litany of fiction so vast that we know we cannot. — Jasper Fforde

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&. — Jasper Fforde

The course of true love rarely runs smooth. — Jasper Fforde

I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all costs. — Jasper Fforde

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out. — Jasper Fforde

If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out.
And the journey starts NOW. — Jasper Fforde

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