"I always really admired you growing up. Always smiling through your unhappiness. A real inspiration." "I wasn't unhappy." "You looked unhappy." "Loo… - Jasper Fforde

"I always really admired you growing up. Always smiling through your unhappiness. A real inspiration."
"I wasn't unhappy."
"You looked unhappy."
"Looks can be deceptive."
"All too true," she said, "but I meant what I said: inspirational in a sort of tragic way, like you were the failure in the family, but always looked on the bright side of everything."
"You're very kind," I said, long used to Megan's ways, "but it could have been much worse: I could have been born without tact or empathy, and be shallow, self-absorbed and hideously patronizing."

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About Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English-born Welsh novelist and aviator. He is the author of the popular Thursday Next series, as well as the Nursery Crime books.

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Humans are more or less identical except for a few peculiar habits generally delineated by geographic circumstances and historical precedent. But essentially, they’re all the same and reading from the same rule book. To get along you have to appreciate the rules, but also know that other people know the rules—and that they know that you know the rules. Get it?

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