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
“We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.”
― Robin S. Sharma, quote from Who Will Cry When You Die?
“What else can you do with the law of gravitation? If we look at the moons of Jupiter we can understand everything about the way they move around that planet. Incidentally, there was once a certain difficulty with the moons of Jupiter that is worth remarking on. These satellites were studied very carefully by Rømer, who noticed that the moons sometimes seemed to be ahead of schedule, and sometimes behind. (One can find their schedules by waiting a very long time and finding out how long it takes on the average for the moons to go around.) Now they were ahead when Jupiter was particularly close to the earth and they were behind when Jupiter was farther from the earth. This would have been a very difficult thing to explain according to the law of gravitation—it would have been, in fact, the death of this wonderful theory if there were no other explanation. If a law does not work even in one place where it ought to, it is just wrong. But the reason for this discrepancy was very simple and beautiful: it takes a little while to see the moons of Jupiter because of the time it takes light to travel from Jupiter to the earth. When Jupiter is closer to the earth the time is a little less, and when it is farther from the earth, the time is more. This is why moons appear to be, on the average, a little ahead or a little behind, depending on whether they are closer to or farther from the earth. This phenomenon showed that light does not travel instantaneously, and furnished the first estimate of the speed of light. This was done in 1676.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 1
“I feel rather drab and shy for a few minutes. But then I remember that I am old and nobody is looking at me.”
― Emma Healey, quote from Elizabeth Is Missing
“Why can't I stay away? I think it's partly because he wears Burt's Bees lip balm, and I'm a sucker for a guy with well-conditioned lips.”
― Kara Taylor, quote from Prep School Confidential
“One sidelong glance at his dad and Ish walked back home. ‘Where the hell are you going now?’ Ish’s dad said. ‘Match. Why? You want to curse me some more?’ Ish said. ‘When you’ve wasted your entire life, what’s another day?’ Ish’s father said and the neighbours half-nodded their heads in sympathy. We missed the final five overs of the match. Luckily, India won and Ish didn’t get that upset. ‘Yes, yes, yes,’ Ishaan jumped. ‘Gopi on me tonight.’ I love idiots. Actually, Ishaan is not an idiot. At least not as much as Omi. It”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Three Mistakes of My Life
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