Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender … - Jasper Fforde

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The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.

Jasper Fforde

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

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

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