# Quote — Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

> “I’ll tell you what love is,” I told her. “It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter!”

- Author: [Jasper Fforde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde.md)
- Book: [Lost in a Good Book](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/lost-in-a-good-book.md)
- Page: 350
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde#Lost_in_a_Good_Book_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/lost-in-a-good-book/ill-tell-you

## More from this book

> “He said you were very dangerous.”
>
> “No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth.”

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/lost-in-a-good-book/he-said-you.md)

> Mr. McGregor’s a nasty piece of work, isn’t he? Quite the Darth Vader of children’s literature.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/lost-in-a-good-book/mr-mcgregors-a-nasty.md)

> It wasn’t going to be hard—it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I’d done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

p. 124 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/lost-in-a-good-book/it-wasnt-going.md)