The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.

Jasper Fforde
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  1. What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess." He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?"" I love it." He says" Why?"" Because we match. - Rainbow Rowell

  2. You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want. - Diana Wynne Jones

  3. Others can't always define your true identity. They see what they 'want' to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it's good! - Chinonye J. Chidolue

  4. My life before him was so simple and decided, now after him... It's just... After. - Anna Todd

  5. The bigger the mess, the greater the progress. - Richie Norton

More Quotes By Jasper Fforde
  1. Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

  2. If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

  3. Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

  4. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

  5. Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

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