Dead. Never been that before. Not even once. - Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels

"Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world."

"Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world."

"Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."

"Dead. Never been that before. Not even once."

"Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable."