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The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde

Quotes

  1. Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad. I’m just...well, differently moraled, that’s all.

    p. 157

  2. “It was a coincidence.”

    “I don’t believe in coincidences.”

    “Neither do I. That’s a coincidence, isn’t it?”

    p. 82

  3. Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and sheer bloody-mindedness almost guarantees that the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.

    p. 18

  4. You’ve got a face longer than a Dickens novel.

    p. 371

  5. “James Crometty!” demanded Bowden. “Did you kill him?”

    “I kill a lot of people,” whispered Felix7. “I don’t remember names.”

    “You shot him six times in the face.”

    The dying killer smiled.

    “That I remember.”

    “Six times! Why?”

    Felix7 frowned and started to shiver.

    “Six was all I had,” he answered simply.

    p. 166

  6. The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

    p. 318

  7. “Haven’t I seen your face somewhere else?”

    “No, it’s always been right here on the front of my head.”

    p. 248

  8. “It’s easy. A lobotomized monkey could do it.”

    “And where are we going to find a lobotomized monkey at this time of night?”

    p. 275

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