Memorable quotes for
84 Charing Cross Road (1987) More at IMDbPro »

[first lines]
Businessman on plane: Your first trip to London?
Helene Hanff: Yes.
Businessman on plane: You want a word of advice? Don't trust the cab drivers; they'll take you five miles to go three blocks... and, uh, don't waste your time looking at a street map. Nobody can find their way around London - not even Londoners.
Helene Hanff: Maybe I should go to Baltimore instead.
Businessman on plane: No; you'll enjoy it. London's a great place. What kind of trip is it - business or pleasure?
Helene Hanff: Unfinished business.

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[last lines]
Helene Hanff: Here I am, Frankie; I finally made it.

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Helene Hanff: I love inscriptions on flyleafs and notes in margins. I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned and reading passages someone long-gone has called my attention to.

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George Martin: How's the tea coming along?
Cecily Farr: It's almost ready
George Martin: What would we do without our cups of tea. Life would be insupportable, would it not?

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Helene Hanff: [written in a letter to Frank] "I can never get interested in thing that didn't happen to people who never lived."

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