Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and shee… - Jasper Fforde

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

"The ChronoGuard has shut itself down, and time travel is as it should be: technically, logically and theoretically…impossible."
"Good thing, too," replied Landen. "It always made my head ache. In fact I was thinking of doing a self-help book for SF novelists eager to write about time travel. It would consist of a single word: Don't."

"Oh!" said Landen, reading a letter. "A rejection from my publisher. They didn't think Fatal Parachuting Mistakes and How to Avoid Making Them Again was what they had in mind for self-help."
"I guess their target audience doesn't include dead people."
"You could be right."