Anthony Walton

“He always did his shopping in Waitrose, as it was ‘a positive British experience generally unsullied by the presence of foreigners’.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

“As for Scargill’s insistence that he’d been right about the Coal Board’s plans to close pits: as somebody once said, the job of the trade-union leader isn’t to predict rain, it’s to build the bloody ark.”
― Alan Johnson, Please, Mister Postman

“Of course,’ I said, and sat down beside her. ‘But I’m not an actor.’ ‘We are all actors,’ said Connie. ‘Our true feelings and desires hidden behind masks carved from the trammels of accepted social norms. Wouldn’t you say so?”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

“Connie, in what I realised later was an effort to steer the conversation to where she needed it, mentioned that Fortean Times had reported that a moose shot dead by a hunter was later found to have amassed a considerable library of George Eliot novels, critical appraisals, biographies and poetry, and had been attempting to write a dissertation on how Eliot’s life could be viewed from the viewpoint of even-toed ungulates singled out for their lack of apparent good looks.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit