“ You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be. Jasper Fforde
“ When she turned I could see her face was plain and outwardly unremarkable, yet possessing of a bearing that showed inner strength and resolve. I stared at her intently with a mixture of feelings. I ha… Jasper Fforde
“ So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix. Jasper Fforde
“ Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something. Jasper Fforde
“ Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs. Jasper Fforde
“ Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. Jasper Fforde
“ I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live. Jasper Fforde
“ My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind of like the old me suddenly taking over, and I promised myself that… 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
“ Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand o… Jasper Fforde
“ Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading. Jasper Fforde
“ Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index. Jasper Fforde
“ Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. Jasper Fforde
“ All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main cont… Jasper Fforde
“ Magic swirls about us like an invisible fog of energy that can be tapped by those gifted enough, using a variety of techniques that center on layered spelling, mumbled incantations, and a burst of con… Jasper Fforde
“ There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is… Jasper Fforde
“ Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except t… Jasper Fforde
“ I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees. Jasper Fforde
