Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”
“I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!”
“Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.”
“I'll tell you what love is" I said, "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.”
“You'll like it here; everyone is quite mad.”
“…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.”
“How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.”
“Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”
“I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.”
“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.”
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Book Keywords:
humor, odd, heathcliff, first-person, ua-of-w-cat, unusual, weird, absurd, pov, insults, wuthering-heights, put-downs
