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

by Jasper Fforde

The Special Operations Network was initiated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty-two departments in all,

Shakespeare Federation’s weekly magazine, We Love Willy,

“He said you were very dangerous.” “No more dangerous than anyone else who dares speak the truth.

scientific thought, indeed, any mode of thought whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else, is just like the fashions that we wear—only much longer-lived.

the way we think is nothing more than a passing fad?”

Homo sapien at his least sapient.

You’ll be pleased to know that the Goliath Cheerfulness Index has reached a four-year high this morning at nine point one three.” “Out of a hundred?” asked Landen sarcastically. “Out of ten, Mr. Parke-Laine,”

“Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer,

“Corporate impatience?”

the minimum entry requirements have been reduced to ‘anyone mad enough to join me.’ ” I sighed.

you can’t nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not;

First of all, we are all time travelers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

There are two sorts of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I am trying to make you the former.