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Sensing any high temperature, all windows would have morphed shut

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 122)

outside under moonlight or the faint collective glimmer from distant suns which had been reduced to pinpoints of light by distance

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 99)

'A couple of decades?' I echoed, as this was the first time Jane had mentioned any sense of a time scale to our project.

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 69)

The sooner your tenure as my son-in-law is brought to a close, the better.

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 59)

An empty moment swelled in the room, fuelled by ignorance and fear.

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 53)

Without warning, an illogical thought popped into my head. It wasn't an abstract notion, either; it was a fully formed idea with several steps.

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 39)

In truth there shouldn't have been a wall around him at all since there was technically nothing for there to be a wall around, but sometimes it was handy to know what we shouldn't talk about. The Fallen Man existed, but only to define the context in which he didn't.

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 37)

She knew as well as I did there were twelve beasts in the nation generally regarded to be of manufactured rather than biological origin, and the ripping turtle was one of only three that were still thought to function.

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 11)

In truth, I had been sent out here to conduct a chair census – the sort of pointless task usually reserved for those who have shown a level of innovation, curiosity or independence of thought that wasn’t quite enough to send them to a re-education facility commonly known as ‘Reboot’.

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 5)

There’s nothing beyond here except wild rhododendron, megafauna, ball lightning, Riffraff and peril.

— Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey, #2) (Page 5)

“The trick is not to mind that it hurts,” said Vimes.

— Jingo by Terry Pratchett (90%)

I SHALL TREAD EXTRA SOOT INTO HIS CARPET

— Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #20) (20%)

Then what passed for gravity on the Disc recovered from surprise and claimed them.

— The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #1) (60%)