Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
Jasper FfordeI suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.
Jasper FfordeYou have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
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