Jasper Fforde Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me. The Eyre Affair

2. Dead. Never been that before. Not even once. First Among Sequels

3. Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. The Eyre Affair

4. Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. Lost in a Good Book

5. I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind. Shades of Grey

6. I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you. The Eyre Affair

7. I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts! Lost in a Good Book

8. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. The Big Over Easy

9. Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. The Eyre Affair

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

11. Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea. Shades of Grey

12. She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

13. Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. First Among Sequels

14. Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. First Among Sequels

15. For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

16. Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea. Shades of Grey

17. the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

18. Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. First Among Sequels