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Quotes from The Eyre Affair — Jasper Fforde

born 1961 Wales

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7 quotes

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

The Eyre Affair (2001)

You’ve got a face longer than a Dickens novel.

The Eyre Affair (2001)

“It was a coincidence.”
“I don’t believe in coincidences.”
“Neither do I. That’s a coincidence, isn’t it?”

The Eyre Affair (2001)

“It’s easy. A lobotomized monkey could do it.”
“And where are we going to find a lobotomized monkey at this time of night?”

The Eyre Affair (2001)

“Haven’t I seen your face somewhere else?”
“No, it’s always been right here on the front of my head.”

The Eyre Affair (2001)

Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad. I’m just...well, differently moraled, that’s all.

The Eyre Affair (2001)

Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and sheer bloody-mindedness almost guarantees that the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.

The Eyre Affair (2001)

Attribution

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