Frases de Jasper Fforde página 2

“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

“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.”

“True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is…”

Fuente: Shades of Grey

“Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“What is there to forgive?… Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.”

Jasper Fforde libro First Among Sequels

Fuente: First Among Sequels

“I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote, I must be dafter than I look.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

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

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.”

Jasper Fforde libro First Among Sequels

Fuente: First Among Sequels

“Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.”

Jasper Fforde libro Something Rotten

Fuente: Something Rotten

“Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”

Jasper Fforde libro First Among Sequels

Fuente: First Among Sequels

“Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!”

Fuente: Shades of Grey

“Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”

Jasper Fforde libro One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Fuente: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”

Fuente: Shades of Grey

“I have the death sentence in seven genres.”

Jasper Fforde libro One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Fuente: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.”

Jasper Fforde libro The Well of Lost Plots

Fuente: The Well of Lost Plots

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

Jasper Fforde libro Something Rotten

Fuente: Something Rotten

“The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“You many have noticed I have a temper… but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.”

Fuente: Shades of Grey

“How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?”

Jasper Fforde libro El caso Jane Eyre

Fuente: The Eyre Affair

“Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.”

Jasper Fforde libro The Big Over Easy

Fuente: The Big Over Easy

“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.”

Jasper Fforde libro The Big Over Easy

Fuente: The Big Over Easy

“I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.”

Jasper Fforde libro The Well of Lost Plots

Fuente: The Well of Lost Plots

“I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.”

Jasper Fforde libro Lost in a Good Book

Fuente: Lost in a Good Book

“Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.”

Jasper Fforde libro Lost in a Good Book

Fuente: Lost in a Good Book

“Were you listening to a word I said '
'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.”

Jasper Fforde libro The Last Dragonslayer

Fuente: The Last Dragonslayer

“Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.”

Fuente: Shades of Grey

“Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”

Jasper Fforde libro The Big Over Easy

Fuente: The Big Over Easy

“the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.”

Jasper Fforde libro Lost in a Good Book

Fuente: Lost in a Good Book