Theodosia of the Fathomless Hall

“I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Of all things, I liked books best.”
― Nikola Tesla

“The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a debutante dance and were banished forever from civilized society”
― Michelle Cooper, A Brief History of Montmaray

“For my father
John Standish Fforde
1920-2000
Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless--and not a little surprised.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair