Martin Sharpe Quotes

“I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wanted my hour a week to make the difference between a future addicted to heroin and a future studying English at Oxford. That was the sort of kid I wanted, and instead they'd given me someone whose chief interest was in eating fruit. I mean, what did he need to read for? There's an international symbol for the gents' toilets, and he could always get his mother to tell him what was on television.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down