The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)

by Jasper Fforde

“Books”—Snell smiled—“are a kind of magic.”

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception, m’girl. I’m surprised you hadn’t figured that out yet.

“Probably has nothing to do with it; you shall. Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.”