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Quotes from Lost in a Good Book — Jasper Fforde

born 1961 Wales

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

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

“Don’t believe this,” murmured Miss Havisham. “It’s all poppycock. Her majesty is a verb short of a sentence.”

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

“Do you know what the worst bit about dying is?”
“Tell me, Gran.”
“You never get to see how it all turns out.”

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

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.

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

“He said you were very dangerous.”
“No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth.”

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

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

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

“You’re crazy!”
“Undoubtedly. But look around you. You followed me in here. Who’s crazier? The crazy or the crazy who follows him?”

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

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.

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

“I’ll tell you what love is,” I told her. “It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter!”

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

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.

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jasper Fforde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.