# Quote — Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

> “Bipedal movement is the skill of controlled falling,” said Square. “If it weren’t so commonplace, it would seem miraculous—like much out here, to be truthful.”

- Author: [Jasper Fforde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde.md)
- Book: [One of Our Thursdays Is Missing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing.md)
- Page: 186
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde#One_of_Our_Thursdays_is_Missing_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing/bipedal-movement-is-the

## More from this book

> To a text-based life-form, unpredictable syntax and poor grammar is a source of huge discomfort. Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can’t walk to the bathroom. Poor syntax is even worse. Change word order and a sentence useless for anyone Yoda except you have.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing/to-a-text-based.md)

> The good thing about being in the BookWorld is that we aren’t hampered by anything as awkward as physical laws. The RealWorld must be hideously annoying to do science in.

p. 172 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing/the-good-thing.md)

> The idea that people actually do this because they like it strikes me as double insanity with added insanity.

p. 339 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/one-of-our-thursdays-is-missing/the-idea-that.md)