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“You intend to go . . . supersonic?’ ‘Trust us,’ said Owen with a smile, ‘it’s faintly possible that we know what we’re doing.”
― 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

“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

“My anger’s a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education