Sara

“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
― Maud Casey

“Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?”
― Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

“Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians.
Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'...”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

“Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots