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“A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.”

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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

“What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?”

“what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.”

Needs Mind Kissing Swimming Swimming Upstream

Book:Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems

Source: Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems

“But that mimosa grove-the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since-until at last, twenty-four years later, I broke her spell by incarnating her in another.”

Years Littles Lasts Girl Stars Four Twenties Tongue Broke Flames Spells Honey Four Years Ache Limbs Dew Ardent Grove Haze Mimosas

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”

Fate

Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”

Forever Fallen

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.”

World Two Hands Past Desire Night Decision Sun Higher Red Rose Glasses Bliss Two Things Succession Sparkling Balconies Libertine

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Fantasy Wide

Author:Octavia Butler

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

People Fronts Understood

Book:Second Glance: A Novel

Source: Second Glance: A Novel

“Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.”

Feels Stills Doors Window Breeze

Book:Second Glance: A Novel

Source: Second Glance: A Novel

“History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.”

Memories Perfume Eyelids

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper

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