Jasper Fforde Quotes
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.
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I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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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.
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Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
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There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
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The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.
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There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.