Charlie Fletcher Quotes & Sayings

Fetter Lane,' read Edie.
"Fetters are chains. Like handcuffs, On your legs," said George.
"I know," she said. "They don't go in for cheerful, do they, these City people naming their streets? I even saw a Bleeding Heart Yard once. Had a horrible atmosphere. I didn't touch anything and got out as fast as I could. — Charlie Fletcher

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important. — Charlie Fletcher

Rain spat at him, and he looked up, thinking that alone was the way to be, because alone meant you were in charge of what could get to you and what you could keep out. — Charlie Fletcher

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident. — Charlie Fletcher

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be. — Charlie Fletcher

You know what you are, young 'un? You're the grand bloody panjandrum of the painfully bleeding obvious. — Charlie Fletcher

People pay money to go in there and that row thrown at them? Could stick your head in a bucket and whack it with a stick for free ... — Charlie Fletcher

You can't change the past. Even if it hasn't happened yet. — Charlie Fletcher

The end always happens faster than you think. — Charlie Fletcher

But hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways. — Charlie Fletcher

Everybody wants to fly. At some stage in their lives, everyone looks up in the sky and sees the seemingly effortlessness of a bird in the gulf of air overhead and thinks: I wish, just one time, that could be me. — Charlie Fletcher

Victor had always said that most of the time happiness crept up on you when you were doing something else. He also said no happiness was ever wasted, because every happiness stays with you, and you can revisit it in your memory any time you're sad, or lonely or depressed. It was kinda corny, but like a lot of corny things, it was true. Maybe that was what made it corny in the first place. — Charlie Fletcher

Soup,"she said gruffly. "Nothing in the world that can't be made worse by facing it on an empty stomach. Even if the end's coming, there's always time to eat. — Charlie Fletcher

Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing. — Charlie Fletcher