01Undated7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
03UndatedThough his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
04UndatedYes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
06UndatedMagic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
07UndatedBut that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
08UndatedI liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I didn't know whether I actually liked him or he was just suggesting I like him, which was both creepy and unethical. In fact, the whole Remote Suggestion or "seeding" idea had been banned once it was discovered to be the key ingredient in promoting talent less boy bands, which had until then been something of a mystery.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
09Undatedmagic swirls about us like an invisible fog of energy that can be tapped by those gifted enough, using a variety of techniques that center on layered spelling, mumbled incantations, and a burst of concentrated thought channeled through the index fingers. The technical name for this energy is "variable electro-gravitational mutable subatomic force," which doesn't mean anything at all--confused scientists just gave it an important-sounding name so as not to lose face. The usual term is "wizidrical energy," or simply "the crackle.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
12UndatedPDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
13UndatedThe only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
14UndatedTrue and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
15UndatedThe best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
16UndatedI don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
17UndatedIndividual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
18UndatedSometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
19UndatedI think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
20UndatedPrejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
21UndatedI'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
22UndatedThe cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
23UndatedIn fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
24UndatedI was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton--go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday--I don't know why--and my father had no name at all--his identity and existence had been scrubbed by the ChronoGuard after he went rogue. To all intents and purposes he didn't exist at all. It didn't matter. He was always Dad to me...Jasper Fforde / quote ↗
