Jasper Fforde Quotes

“PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them.”

“Woe betides anyone getting in the way of people that keep on muddying the waters, throwing up smoke screens and clouding issues, so as to conceal their dubious motivations. ("Could the milkman be the devil?")”

“Slow as your own dubious grace.”

“Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.”

“He's mad at me.""For what?""For not being like him."Eleanor looked dubious. "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?""Basically.”

“Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.”

“One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.”

“Fairy godmothers?” said the king dubiously. “We’ll have a time getting that past the court council — and the bishop.”

“Profound thoughts arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas, but also dubious ideas.”

“It is of the dubious inevitable side of human nature—like gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines”