Jasper Fforde Quotes

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

The best plans are always the simplest.

Death and the end of one’s life are two very different things indeed.

Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.

Religion isn’t the cause of wars, it’s the excuse.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

I collect ex-boyfriends — and more than five, at last count.

I was on HPD–Heathcliff Protection Duty–in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.

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.