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“Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.”
― Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”
― Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

“All those words,' she whispered, 'so diligently placed together, and so pointlessly torn apart.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners,”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition, Inspector.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

“If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarkbeast

“The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.”
― Jasper Fforde

“Don’t cry over anything that can’t cry over you.”
― Katie Fforde, Second Thyme Around

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition,”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

“Said by Colin the dragon:
"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar

“Money is a form of alchemy, [...] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

“I don't believe in coincidences."
"Neither do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“Maybe money can’t buy happiness, but it can rent it for a long time.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“He’s stuck out there. He thinks he’s totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of effect does that have on a man’s psychology?” He turned back to Venkat. “I wonder what he’s thinking right now.”

LOG ENTRY: SOL 61 How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“That makes me a pirate! A space pirate!”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“YOU believe in God, Venkat?” Mitch asked. “Sure, lots of ’em,” Venkat said. “I’m Hindu.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I need to ask myself, “What would an Apollo astronaut do?” He’d drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“He looked confused. “With your girlfriend, I mean. Who was to blame?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “Ultimately Churchill, I expect.”
― Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da

“We all know, of course, what to make of our newspapers. The deaf man writes down what the blind man has told him, the village idiot edits it, and their colleagues in the other press houses copy it. Each story is doused afresh with the same stagnant infusion of lies, so that the “splendid” brew can then be served up to a clueless Volk.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“Aber man weiß ja, was man von unseren Zeitungen zu halten hat. Da notiert der Schwerhörige, was ihm der Blinde berichtet, der Dorftrottel korrigiert es, und die Kollegen in den anderen Pressehäusern schreiben es ab.”
― Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da

“Germans today keep their waste more thoroughly separated than their races.”
― Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da

“Had I known back then just how cheap it was to employ Poles, I might as well have leapfrogged their country.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“The telephone, it struck me at that moment, is the wrong means of communication for people without ears.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.”
― Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da

“One never knows when and why such people start talking; frequently they only open their mouths because they realize they haven’t said anything yet, or because they’re worried that if they continue to remain silent they will be regarded as insignificant.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“In my opinion, only bakers need to work early in the morning. And the Gestapo, of course—that is self-evident. To tear the Bolshevist rabble from their beds, so long as they are not Bolshevist bakers. For they would already be awake, and thus the Gestapo, for their part, would have to get up even earlier, and so on and so forth.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“Wherever there is a large motorway enabling the transport of ton after ton of German goods, you will inevitably find a sweet little rabbit trembling by the roadside.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back