Jasper Fforde
Quotes
“The stupidity surplus,” repeated Landen as he sat down at the kitchen table, “I’m all for responsible government, but storing it up like this is bound to cause problems sooner or later—even by acting sensibly, the government has shown itself to be a bunch of idiots.”
“There are a lot of idiots in this country,” I replied absently, “and they deserve representation as much as the next man.”
p. 2
“How is the faith-unification business?”
“We’ve nearly got everyone,” said Joffy with a smile. “The atheists came on board last week. Once we had suggested that ‘god’ could be a set of essentially beneficent physical rules of the cosmos, they were only too happy to join. In fact, apart from a few scattered remnants of faith leaders who can’t quite come to terms with the loss of their power, influence and associated funny hats, it’s all looking pretty good.”
p. 128
“He said you were very dangerous.”
“No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth.”
p. 60
Mr. McGregor’s a nasty piece of work, isn’t he? Quite the Darth Vader of children’s literature.
p. 139
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
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
p. 35
“You’re crazy!”
“Undoubtedly. But look around you. You followed me in here. Who’s crazier? The crazy or the crazy who follows him?”
p. 262
Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad. I’m just...well, differently moraled, that’s all.
p. 157
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
p. 48
My father said it was a delightfully odd—and dangerously self-destructive—quirk of humans that we were far more interested in pointless trivia then in genuine news stories.
p. 141
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
p. 93
“It was a coincidence.”
“I don’t believe in coincidences.”
“Neither do I. That’s a coincidence, isn’t it?”
p. 82
