# Quote — Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

> “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.”

- Author: [Jasper Fforde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde.md)
- Book: [Early Riser](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser.md)
- Page: 63
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde#Early_Riser_(2018)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/early-riser/you-need-to-delay

## More from this book

> 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)