Charlie Fletcher > Quotes

“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, Silvertongue

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

“We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.”
― Charlie Fletcher, Silvertongue

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

“...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.”
― Charlie Fletcher, Silvertongue

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

“You can't change the past. Even if it hasn't happened yet.”
― 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, Ironhand

“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, The Oversight

“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, Far Rockaway

“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, Silvertongue

“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 end always happens faster than you think.”
― Charlie Fletcher, The Oversight

“A sec ret is but a betrayal waiting to happen.”
― Charlie Fletcher, The Oversight

“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, Stoneheart

“He knew this now without a moment’s hesitation: life was sweet because the opposite was a blank and bitter darkness in which nothing grew, not even hope.”
― Charlie Fletcher, The Paradox

“vulnerant omnes,
ultima necat Every hour wounds,
the last kills.”
― Charlie Fletcher, The Remnant

“It’s important to have strong beliefs and opinions,” she said, “because you want to steer your own life according to your own lights. But the other side of being strong like that is you have to be open to the fact that you might be wrong, and be willing to change those opinions if the evidence rises up and smacks you in the eye.”
― Charlie Fletcher, The Paradox

“Just like as in a nest of boxes round, Degrees of sizes in each box are found: So, in this world, may many others be Thinner and less, and less still by degree … by Margaret Cavendish,
Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1653)”
― Charlie Fletcher, The Paradox

“Cela sent comme le cul d’un mendiant mort. Faites quelque chose!” “We’re”
― Charlie Fletcher, The Oversight