“He had found that all snails have the capacity to do over one hundred miles per hour and find their way to a given location with pinpoint accuracy, but didn't because they were horribly lazy and couldn't be bothered.” — 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
