Ryan

“You don't like me, do you?' 'That would take effort,' she replied. 'Indifference is much, MUCH easier.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“I hadn't even heard of East Carmine, let alone thought I would be spending a month there on Humility Realignment. My friends were horrified, expressed low-to-moderate outrage that I should be treated this way and proclaimed that they would have started a petition if they could have troubled themselves to look for a pencil.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“Aside from the Parker Brothers' celebrated geochromatic view of the Previous World, it was the only pre-Epiphanic map known. But somehow its rarity wasn't enough to make it interesting, and we stared blankly for some minutes at the faded parchment, hoping to either misunderstand it on a deeper level or at least get our money's worth.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“It was loopholery at its very best.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey