Frases de Jasper Fforde

“No te creas a quien te diga que el futuro ya está escrito. Lo mas que puede hacer un profeta es ofrecerte la versión más probable de los futuros acontecimientos, pero depende de nosotros aceptar el futuro tal y como es, o cambiarlo. Es fácil dejarse llevar por la corriente, pues para nadar en contra hay que ser muy valiente.”

The Last Dragonslayer

“Pero Mu'shad Waseed, aunque es muy buen mago, no tiene en todo el cuerpo ni una centésima parte del poder que yo tengo en el dedo meñique del pie.
-¡Os he oído! -le dijo Mu'shad Waseed (…)-. ¡Enseñadme ese meñique vuestro tan poderoso!
Pero en lugar de mostrarle a Mu'shad Waseed el dedo del pie, lo que hizo el Poderoso Shandar fue inclinarse ante él, tanto que incluso rozó el suelo con la frente, y decirle, con voz cargada de respeto y veneración:
-Bienvenido a mi humilde palacio, muy honorable Mago del Imperio Persa, señor de los vientos y de las mareas, conocido en sus dominios como El que es capaz de aplacar a Tamsin.
-¿No querrá usted decir jamsin? ¿Ese viento seco y cálido que sopla habitualmente en la Península Arábiga?
-Si hubiera querido decir jamsin, hubiera dicho jamsin. Tamsin era la segunda esposa de Mu'shad Waseed. Una mujer espantosa, espantosa de verdad. Su amor por las cosas brillantes y la ropa cara, y su costumbre de bañarse en leche de coneja, hicieron retroceder e feminismo por lo menos cuatro siglos.”

The Last Dragonslayer

“Bienvenido a Kazam (…), donde los horrores más inimaginables comparten el día a día con la perplejidad absoluta y el azar más rabioso. Definirlo como manicomio sería un insulto hasta para el más desquiciado de los manicomios.”

The Last Dragonslayer

“Las premoniciones se cumplen porque la gente quiere que se cumplan. Un observador siempre cambia el resultadi de un acontecimiento; millines de observadores, como en este caso, lo garantizan.”

The Last Dragonslayer

“Eso es lo malo de las premoniciines, que tienen la molesta costumbre de hacerse realidad.”

The Last Dragonslayer

“Intentamos que el arte sea perfecto porque en la vida real jamás lo logramos”

The Last Dragonslayer

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde: Frases en inglés

“I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!”

“There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says… it's payback time!”

Jasper Fforde libro Lost in a Good Book

Fuente: Lost in a Good Book

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”

Jasper Fforde libro Something Rotten

Fuente: Something Rotten

“Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.”

Jasper Fforde libro Something Rotten

Fuente: Something Rotten

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just… well,, that's all.”

Jasper Fforde libro First Among Sequels

Fuente: First Among Sequels

“Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“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 libro The Big Over Easy

Fuente: The Big Over Easy

“Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”

Jasper Fforde libro The Well of Lost Plots

Fuente: The Well of Lost Plots

“Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”

Jasper Fforde libro First Among Sequels

Fuente: First Among Sequels

“Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.”

Fuente: Shades of Grey

“Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.”

Jasper Fforde libro The Woman Who Died a Lot

Fuente: The Woman Who Died a Lot

“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”

Jasper Fforde libro Something Rotten

Fuente: Something Rotten

“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”

Jasper Fforde libro Lost in a Good Book

Fuente: Lost in a Good Book

“Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”

Fuente: Shades of Grey

“Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.”

Jasper Fforde libro First Among Sequels

Fuente: First Among Sequels

“The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.”

Jasper Fforde libro Lost in a Good Book

Fuente: Lost in a Good Book

“Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.”

Fuente: Shades of Grey

“I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.”

“You'll like it here; everyone ismad.”

Jasper Fforde libro Lost in a Good Book

Fuente: Lost in a Good Book

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

Jasper Fforde libro Lost in a Good Book

Fuente: Lost in a Good Book

“the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe”

Jasper Fforde libro Something Rotten

Fuente: Something Rotten

“Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.”

Fuente: Shades of Grey

“Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”

Jasper Fforde libro First Among Sequels

Fuente: First Among Sequels

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.”

Jasper Fforde libro One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Fuente: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.”

Jasper Fforde libro The Fourth Bear

Fuente: The Fourth Bear

“Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.”

Jasper Fforde libro Lost in a Good Book

Fuente: Lost in a Good Book