“Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. I would give everything to ensure the novel's survival.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time! — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
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… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“These are the real puzzles that will face humanity. There is, he claims, a single theory that will explain not only why… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“There is much unexplained in the world. It behoves one to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Are you married? Yes, I mumbled, that is to say - no. Come, come, said Havisham angrily. It is a simple enough… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now.… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
“They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
“Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
“Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
“They keep an eye on forgery, illegal dealing and overtly free thespian interpretations. The actor in with them was Graham Huxtable. He was putting… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share
