Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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 FfordeIf you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.
Jasper Fforde