The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
Jasper FfordeI could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
Jasper FfordeTrue and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
Jasper FfordeHow fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
Jasper Fforde