Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
Jasper FfordeTags: love wonderful blackmail
The course of true love rarely runs smooth.
Jasper FfordeTags: true-love
I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees.
Jasper FfordeTruly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?
Jasper FfordeTags: truth jealousy funny competent
So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?
Jasper FfordeTags: reality fiction confusion dialogue
We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
Jasper FfordeA Quarkbeast is a small hyena-shaped creature that is covered in leathery scales and often described as: 'One tenth Labrador, six-tenths velociraptor and three-tenths kitchen food blender.
Jasper FfordeTags: jasper fforde jasper-fforde quarkbeast the-song-of-the-quarkbeast
Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.
Jasper FfordeTags: future prophet psychic soothsayers pre-cog seeing-the-future
The trip back home was uneventful and over in only twelve words.
Jasper FfordePDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.
And it's our job to stop them.
Tags: humor fantasy mystery mythology dubious
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