Louise Rennison · 247 pages
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“Look, I can't go out with you, because...because...because I'm a lesbian.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!'
Christ what an image.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Through my curtains I can see a big yellow moon. I’m thinking of all the people in the world who will be looking at that same moon.
I wonder how many of them haven’t got any eyebrows?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Watching TV Mum said, 'Do you miss your dad?' and I said, 'Who?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“How do you make yourself not like someone?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll be a bloke, they don’t have to make sense either.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Overslept and had to race to get a life to Jas’s with my dad. No time for yoga or makeup. Oh well, I’ll start tomorrow. God alone knows how the Dalai Lama copes on a daily basis. He must get up at dawn. Actually, I read somewhere that he does get up at dawn.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Do you miss your dad?" And I said: "Who?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Hij zegt: "Hoor eens, Georgie, je bent nu een jonge vrouw(wat was ik dan eerst, een jong paard?)”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“16.00 uur: Net ontdekt dat Libby mijn laatste maandverbandjes gebruikt heeft als hangmatten voor haar poppen.
16.30 uur: Ze heeft ook al mijn foundation op haar panda gesmeerd, zijn hoofd is nu helemaal beige.
17.00 uur: Ik heb geen foundation meer en ook geen geld. Ik ben bang dat ze eraan gaat.
17.15 uur: Nee. Rust. Ohmmmmmm. Innerlijke rust.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Als ik niet naar het feest kan vanwege haar lesbische lust, GAAT JUFFROUW STAMP DOOD, ZE GAAT DOOD.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Ik lag op mijn arm tot er geen gevoel meer in zat en toen tilde ik hem op (met mijn nietgevoelloze arm) en legde hem op mijn borsten. Ik wilde weten hoe het voelde om een vreemde hand op je borsten te hebben. Het was wel aangenaam, maar wat weet ik er nou van? Ik zit vol rare verlangens om helder te kunnen denken. Moet ik mijn beha aan naar het feest?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Wat betekent dat, als een jongen zijn hand op je borst legt? Betekent het dat hij een geilneef is? Of was zijn hand gewoon moe?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“Net ontdekt dat Libby mijn laatste maandverbandjes gebruikt heeft als hangmatten voor haar poppen.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“down quickly. I hope he didn’t see me because I had an”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“I suppose this is what life will be like for me—never having a boyfriend, always just living through others”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“SWIFTLY walk o'er the western wave,
Spirit of Night!
Out of the misty eastern cave,--
Where, all the long and lone daylight,
Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear
Which make thee terrible and dear,--
Swift be thy flight!
Wrap thy form in a mantle grey,
Star-inwrought!
Blind with thine hair the eyes of Day;
Kiss her until she be wearied out.
Then wander o'er city and sea and land,
Touching all with thine opiate wand--
Come, long-sought!
When I arose and saw the dawn,
I sigh'd for thee;
When light rode high, and the dew was gone,
And noon lay heavy on flower and tree,
And the weary Day turn'd to his rest,
Lingering like an unloved guest,
I sigh'd for thee.
Thy brother Death came, and cried,
'Wouldst thou me?'
Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed,
Murmur'd like a noontide bee,
'Shall I nestle near thy side?
Wouldst thou me?'--And I replied,
'No, not thee!'
Death will come when thou art dead,
Soon, too soon--
Sleep will come when thou art fled.
Of neither would I ask the boon
I ask of thee, beloved Night--
Swift be thine approaching flight,
Come soon, soon!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, quote from The Complete Poems
“You picked the wrong girl to dominate, Dracula.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Fated
“The subprime mortgage machine was up and running again, as if it had never broken down in the first place. If the first act of subprime lending had been freaky, this second act was terrifying. Thirty billion dollars was a big year for subprime lending in the mid-1990s. In 2000 there had been $130 billion in subprime mortgage lending, and 55 billion dollars’ worth of those loans had been repackaged as mortgage bonds. In 2005 there would be $625 billion in subprime mortgage loans, $507 billion of which found its way into mortgage bonds.”
― Michael Lewis, quote from The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“...
What the Bible does not mention, but what must be true is that, years later, Lazarus still died. The people Jesus healed were inevitably sick again at some point in their lives. The people Jesus fed miraculously were hungry again a few days later. More important than the very obvious might and power shown by Jesus' miracles is His love. He loved these people enough to do everything in His power to "make it better." He entered into their suffering and loved them right there.”
― Katie J. Davis, quote from Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
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