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“This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.”

Quote by Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde is a British novelist known for his unique sense of humor and his skillful blending of reality and fantasy. His works are characterized by complex narrative structures and rich imagination, which have won him a wide readership. more

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“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.”

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.”

May Hurt Powerful Talking Break Stones Sticks Bones Hurt Me Sticks And Stones Powerful Words Armpits Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.”

Tables Halls Twists Steroid Python Noughts And Crosses

Book:Naughts & Crosses

Source: Naughts & Crosses

“If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.”

People Ifs World Years Would Be Speak Deals Honesty Sorrow Hundred Dare Life And Love

Book:The Way of All Flesh

Source: The Way of All Flesh

“But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?”

Ifs Way Said Stills Book Messages Crosses Treats Neighbor Chosen Good Book Like Love Love Thy Neighbor Do Unto Others Live And Let Live Noughts And Crosses

Book:Naughts & Crosses

Source: Naughts & Crosses

“The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.”

Thinking Want Lying News Noughts And Crosses

Author:Malorie Blackman

“Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them.”

Causes Beats Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it.”

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Author:Malorie Blackman

“I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?”

Doe Used Certain Individual Belief Comfort Notion Peculiar Spoilt Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.”