Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Jasper Fforde

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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Jasper Fforde

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

Jasper Fforde

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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Jasper Fforde

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Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Jasper Fforde

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

Jasper Fforde

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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

Jasper Fforde

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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

Jasper Fforde

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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Jasper Fforde

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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Jasper Fforde


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