East End Quotes

“It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee

“Wiv difficulty 'an injinuity. Jest bein' smart, like.”
― Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives

“No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.”
― Philip Ridley, Ghost from a Perfect Place

“The people of the East End have a marvellous tradition of fighting facism, but facism still always manifests itself in the East End because poverty exists at its heart.”
― Matthew Collins, HATE: My Life In The British Far Right