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Jasper Fforde

"Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own."

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Donna Grant

"Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned."

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Donna Grant

"It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door."

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Donna Grant

"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."

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Donna Grant

"If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness."

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Donna Grant

"Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you."

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Donna Grant

"It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods, To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stolen our jewel."

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Donna Grant

"We are the products of fate, from beginning to end."

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Donna Grant

"Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions."

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Donna Grant

"There's that day when you realize that everything that happened before that one person found you, probably happened to prepare you and to prepare everything, for that person's arrival. It's not that everything suddenly "makes sense" but it's more that you understand why this didn't work and that didn't work and you fell into this ditch and you broke a certain bone somewhere. It's so they'd find you. Or so that you'd find them. So you'd find each other."

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Donna Grant

"The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable."

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Jasper Fforde
"True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."

Morality

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Jasper Fforde
"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."

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Jasper Fforde
"I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics."

Commitment

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Jasper Fforde
"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."

Reality

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Jasper Fforde
"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."

Meaning

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Jasper Fforde
"For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas."

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Jasper Fforde
"What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them-to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else."

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Jasper Fforde
"She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe."

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Jasper Fforde
"I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I didn't know whether I actually liked him or he was just suggesting I like him, which was both creepy and unethical. In fact, the whole Remote Suggestion or "seeding" idea had been banned once it was discovered to be the key ingredient in promoting talent less boy bands, which had until then been something of a mystery."

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Jasper Fforde
"In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash."

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