Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

by Jasper Fforde

I could just as easily be a minor character in an obscure novel somewhere.

perfidy!’

desultory

CILLA BUBB

They always say the first time you save the world is the hardest

‘Anything is possible right now. We’re in the middle of an isolated high coincidental localised entropic field decreasement.’ ‘We’re in a what ?’ ‘We’re in a pseudoscientific technobabble.’

Death by coincidence. What a way to go.

‘It’s funny the way things turn out, isn’t it? All life on earth descended from the organic compounds and proteins contained within Dream Topping.’

(q.v.)

‘Goliath?’ ‘Under a different name.’

‘Will there be Jane Eyre ?’ ‘Yes,’ sighed my father. ‘Yes, there will always be Jane Eyre.’

‘Yes, and Carravaggggio will be there too, although his name will be spelt more sensibly.’

I replied slowly, ‘I’ll just lose myself in a good book.’