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“If you don't know it's impossible,it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up the rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“Lady Mawgon, please don’t think me insensitive, but any attempt to reanimate Mr. Pusskins on the back of the Dibble Storage Coils hacking enchantment might be looked on disfavourably by the other wizards.”
Her eyes narrowed and she gave me one of those stares that seem to hit the back of my skull like a dozen hot needles.
“None of you have an idea what Mr. Pusskins meant to me.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarkbeast

“You’ll pass or my name’s not Jennifer Strange.”
“Your name’s not Jennifer Strange.”
“What?”
“You’re a foundling. You don’t know what your name is.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarkbeast

“Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do...Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn't matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art. Make it on the good days too.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World