Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

— Jasper Fforde

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

— Jasper Fforde

Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of Spec Ops. They never win commendations or medal sand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.

— Jasper Fforde

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences of the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud.

— Jasper Fforde

Chromatic…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

— Jasper Fforde

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

— Jasper Fforde

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

— Jasper Fforde

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

— Jasper Fforde

Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.

— Jasper Fforde

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

— Jasper Fforde