You’ll know the beginning easily enough; it’s when it all started going weird. - 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.

Money had never been a problem in the Book World. All the details of life were taken care of by something called Narrative Assumption. A reader would assume you had gone shopping, or gone to the toilet, or brushed your hair, so a writer never needed to outline it.

"Don't believe this," murmured Miss Havisham. "It's all poppycock. Her majesty is a verb short of a sentence."