# Quote — Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

> My father told me that for the most part coincidences could be safely ignored: they were merely that chance discovery of one pertinent fact from a million or so possible daily interconnections. “Stop a stranger in the street,” he would say, “and delve into each other’s past. Pretty soon an astounding-too-amazing-to-be-chance coincidence will appear.”

- 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: 48
- 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/my-father-told

## 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)