The Unfortunate Englishman Quotes

“What? And have you tell me ‘I told you so’? Remind me that I didn’t listen when you warned me? No, I prefer to meet you in your professional mode. If you are going to be schoolmarm-strict and po-faced then at least you’re only doing your job. In your apartment I’d find you insufferable and I’d take it personally. This is better by far. I fucked up, I am homeless, a refugee, I go where the hopeless fuckers go, to Marienfelde, to Fräulein Burkhardt.” “You don’t have to . . .” “Nell, please . . . I expect no favours. I don’t want to jump any queue. I’ve jumped far enough for one day. So stamp your foot, put on your cast-iron face and oblige me by asking if there’s any ice for my ankle.” “I am not po-faced!” “Really?” “No.” “Oh God, Nell. You’re impossible.” §81 Nell found ice. And then she found a wheelchair. Stuck Eva in it and pushed her to the S-Bahn station. “What are you doing?” “You’re coming home with me. To Wilmersdorf. You will have to learn to live with my ‘po-face.”
― John Lawton, The Unfortunate Englishman

“How odd to still be shocked by what one has always known.”
― John Lawton, The Unfortunate Englishman