A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox Quotes

“Honestly. There are days when I only open my mouth to change feet.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“She gave a single low cry, little more than a loud gasp, as I landed on top of her. In trying desperately to stay light I inevitably made myself heavier. Sod’s law. I”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“Even little old ladies seem to drive like demons in Germany. By comparison, when we were balked by them I felt I could have got out and walked faster.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“I kept motionless and tried to think like a tree.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“Human history is littered with might-have-beens.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“I think my mother secretly hoped that I’d turn into one of those girlie girls. It wasn’t her fault that I firmly resisted any attempts to mould me into an ideal daughter. You can take a girl to ballet lessons as much as you like, but you can’t necessarily make her into a ballerina.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“For Andy, who encouraged me to write in the first place. See, this is all your fault . . .”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“They sent me to see a community psychiatric nurse for counselling about coming to terms with what I'd done, but I have a feeling the bones will be mended long before my conscience. Like I said, the worst part is knowing that, if I was ever in the same situation, I'd do exactly the same thing again. No doubt about it. It doesn't sit well with me, that – the realisation that I have not only the knowledge, but the instinct to kill. It sets you apart from the other people you pass in the street, makes you feel alone, less human than they are. I proved Dave wrong, though. Given a straight fight between a man and a woman, neither with any particular advantage in skill over the other, it isn't a foregone conclusion that the man will always win. I suppose then, right at the end, I could have said to him, “I told you so.” Just as long as I'd said it fast enough.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“How many times had people made that very same mistake with me? So often I'd almost come to rely on it as part of my camouflage.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“Meet Curly and Mo,” I said. “I want you to divide into two groups and form an orderly queue to give these two a bit of stick. Basically, do what you like to them. Punch them, kick them, knee them in the knackers. Pretend they're your boss, your spouse, or whoever's been giving you grief lately.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox