# Early Riser

- Author: [Jasper Fforde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde.md)
- Quotes: 25
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser

## Quotes

> I’d been so convinced of that particular narrative I never for one moment stopped to reappraise the situation.

p. 350 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/id-been-so-convinced.md)

> No, I don’t want to seem underhand or insulting but Toccata’s a poisonous, untrustworthy, self-serving little reptile – with a severe personality disorder and a disquieting capacity for cannibalism.

p. 186 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/no-i-dont.md)

> It would have been easy to dislike her intensely, but I actually felt nothing for her at all.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/it-would-have.md)

> The numbers were too great for HiberTech to hide what had happened. As it was, well-engineered corporate surprise, orchestrated bafflement, faux delight, suitable soul-searching and feigned contrition won the day.

p. 395 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/the-numbers-were.md)

> “What do you think?”
>
> “I can hardly contain my indifference.”

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/what-do-you.md)

> More welcoming were a couple of Welsh Tourist Board posters. One was advertising the local area with the now-universal slogan “Visit Wales – Not Always Raining.”

p. 89 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/more-welcoming-were.md)

> “I lost sixty soldiers under my command.”
>
> “Your fault?” I asked.
>
> “No, but they were all my responsibility, so it amounts to the same thing.”

p. 285 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/i-lost-sixty.md)

> People die in the Winter; it’s what it’s there for.

p. 332 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/people-die-in-the.md)

> “She can’t be that volatile.”
>
> “She punched me in the eye so hard she detached my retina,” he said, “and all I did was place the preposition at the end of the sentence.”

p. 114 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/she-cant-be-that.md)

> There were the rules we were taught, and there were the rules we did our job by. The two were related, but as distant cousins rather than siblings.

p. 117 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/there-were-the.md)

> Winter isn’t a season – it’s a calling.

p. 400 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/winter-isnt-a-season.md)

> Feedback loops, echo chambers, circular reinforcement. All could play a part in escalating the utterly imaginary to the level of reality, sometimes with fatal consequences.

p. 116 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/feedback-loops-echo.md)

> “Passing through?”
>
> “Yes; here to meet with Moody.”
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> “You’ll get more sense from lichen. What’s with your head?”
>
> Unlike talking to The Notable Goodnight, where I needed to be polite, this was an answer I could have fun with.
>
> “It’s the final stages of an excruciatingly painful and incurable genital wasting disease. Luckily, it’s only spread by skin contact. Sorry, I should’ve said that before I shook your hand. Remiss of me – apologies.”
>
> Shamanic Bob smiled.
>
> “Fair enough,” he said. “I think I deserved that.”
>
> “Yes, I think you did.”

p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/passing-through-yes.md)

> “Jealous?” she said. “Of what you have to offer? A second-rate Consul and a third-rate vaudeville act peddling fourth-rate advice to a fifth-rate Novice?”

p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/jealous-she-said.md)

> If you’ve not dreamed, you’ve never truly slept. Dreams are the place where you can be yourself; do anything, be anything. The mind set free.

p. 106 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/if-youve-not.md)

> “Oh, hullo, Worthing,” he said in a cheery manner. “How are things?”
>
> “Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass.”

p. 354 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/oh-hullo-worthing.md)

> I don’t care one way or the other if the big A is using you to scratch an itch, but think very carefully of actions, Wonky. They have a dismaying tendency to be followed by consequences, and sometimes quite bad ones.

p. 284 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/i-dont-care.md)

> “I’ll be honest,” I said, “I have nothing against anyone who believes, but I think it’s a dangerous nonsense.”

p. 105 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/ill-be-honest.md)

> “How is that working out?” I asked.
>
> “Somewhere between frustratingly slow and fiendishly elusive.”

p. 353 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/how-is-that.md)

> “It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not,” he said, “it’s what everyone believes that’s important.”

p. 299 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/it-doesnt-matter.md)

> “Last season we had the Reduced Shakespeare Company doing ‘Highlights of the Mostly Complete History of Condensing Stuff (abridged)’.”

p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/last-season-we-had.md)

> You’ll know the beginning easily enough; it’s when it all started going weird.

p. 355 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/youll-know-the.md)

> “I always really admired you growing up. Always smiling through your unhappiness. A real inspiration.”
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> “I wasn’t unhappy.”
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> “You looked unhappy.”
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> “Looks can be deceptive.”
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> “All too true,” she said, “but I meant what I said: inspirational in a sort of tragic way, like you were the failure in the family, but always looked on the bright side of everything.”
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> “You’re very kind,” I said, long used to Megan’s ways, “but it could have been much worse: I could have been born without tact or empathy, and be shallow, self-absorbed and hideously patronizing.”

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/i-always-really.md)

> “You need to delay the train.”
>
> “How do I do that?”
>
> “Your head on the rails?”
>
> “Seriously?”
>
> “I don’t know. But put it this way: if you don’t delay the train, I will punch you five times hard in the head.”
>
> “Once would probably be enough as a punishment.”
>
> “You don’t need to be punished, you need motivating. And not getting punched five times is a terrific motivator. Take my word for it.”

p. 63 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/you-need-to-delay.md)

> “Agree?”
>
> “Yes, ma’am.”
>
> “I don’t like subordinates always agreeing,” she said. “Sycophants have no place in my department. You’re to speak your mind when the opportunity calls for it.”
>
> “How will I know when that is?”
>
> “I shall inform you.”

p. 216 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/agree-yes-maam.md)