Early Riser Quotes

“Stay close, do what I say and make as many mistakes as you want – just never the same one twice.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“I can hardly contain my indifference.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Can I ask why?"
"Why what?"
"Why you're something you're not?"
"We're all something we're not," he said. "Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be and there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“She used to only play "Help Yourself," but now she only plays "Delilah." Is that normal?
"It's not unusual.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“And he gave me a smile that looked as though it had come from a hastily-read handbook on cultivating personal charm.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Don't underestimate mediocrity... Lasting happiness, I've found, only really favors the unadventurous.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“One was our own Mother Fallopia, tall, elegant, austere, and with a habit so black she looked like a nun-shaped hole in the air.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“... plans are all well and good in the Summer, but in the Winter it's wise to simply have an objective.'
'I thought we were meant to make a plan and stick to it?'
'Events move fast,' he said, 'and you need on-the-hoof flexibility to ensure the plan doesn't get in the way of the goal.'
It actually seemed like quite good advice.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“You a brave person?'
'I don't know.'
'You'll find out soon enough.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“long gaps between sequels to books.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Of all the Winter Service Industries, the Winter Consul was the most dangerous. Few who joined expected to last out the decade, yet recruitment was never much of a problem. You didn't find the job, they said, it found you. No-one ever who entered the Winter voluntarily wasn't trying to leave something behind.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Everyone needs dreams,’ she said simply.
‘If you don’t have them, they can’t come true.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“So when did you first consider a Winter career?’ asked Williams, who seemed chatty.
‘Oh, eight seconds ago,’ I replied.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“If you look into someone else’s dreams, all you ever find are nightmares.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Feedback loops, echo chambers, circular reinforcement. All could play a part in escalating the utterly imaginary to the level of reality, sometimes with fatal consequences.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Staying awake in the winter requires considerable pantry, a lot of luck, warm clothes, and several dozen good books.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“You’re not any of those. But I can’t figure out if you’re a clever person pretending to be thick, a thick person pretending to be clever, or just a chancer stumbling through the Winter without any sort of plan or thought at all.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“You’re a liability and a wild card and trouble seems to follow you like a homesick spaniel.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“You’ll also be pleased to know that no resident has been eaten in their sleep here for almost thirty-seven years.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“It’s important to collect evidence,’ she said, ‘even if disproved. That’s how science works. Being proved wrong and then advancing. If I’m proved wrong a lot, I must be making headway, right?”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“We're all something we're not,' he said. 'Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be. And there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Oh, hullo, Worthing,’ he said in a cheery manner. ‘How are things?’ ‘Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“You’ll know the beginning easily enough; it’s when it all started going weird.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“She and I had not exchanged an intelligent word since we first met five hours before, and the reason was readily explained: Mrs Tiffen was dead, and had been for several years.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“There was a picture of Don Hector on the wall and next to the television was a phonograph with a large collection of cylinders. I looked through them. They were a mixture of old favourites – Dark Side of the Moon, Rumours, Ziggy Stardust – mixed with jazz and a little Puccini.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Events move fast,’ he said, ‘and you need on-the-hoof flexibility to ensure the plan doesn’t get in the way of the goal.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“May the Spring embrace you‘, ‘And embrace you, too.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“at least this way I never get to be a nightwalker, lumbering around the Winter, eating beetles and curtains and people and stuff”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Gaps. I loathe gaps. Gaps in doors, gaps in windows, gaps in bathroom tiles, long gaps between sequels to books. But you know which gaps I hate the most?”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“I don’t back out of a long and happy make-believe union just when things start getting rocky”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser