Louise Rennison · 214 pages
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“Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!'
And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!'
'I don't know, a bowl?'
'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Oh, Blimey O'Riley's pantyhose....What is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on. 'What light doth through yonder window break?' It's the bloody moon, for God sake, Will, get a grip!”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“I can't believe the poo-osity of my life!”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Kedves Muti és Vati!
Remélem, a macskalincselő gyűlés rendben zajlik. Találtam egy darabka száraz pirítóst a teámhoz meg egy kis kukoricapelyhet, hogy elkerüljem a skorbutot. Gondoljatok rám, ha akad egy szabad percetek.
Lányotok,
Georgia”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“poo parlor division” instead of “loo.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“I hope it snows early next term and then I can try out the hilariosity of my new idea vis-à-vis glove animal and snow blindness.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“I care too much for people. I am a bit like Jesus. Only not so heavily bearded.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“In the end they worked out that Angus must have sneaked into Naomi’s love parlor before his trouser snake addendums were, you know…adjusted. Super-Cat!!! He is without doubt the 007 of the cat world.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Our New Year “Let’s go down the disco” experience, with the aid of Charlie Horse and Teddy as partners, was actually quite good fun on the funosity scale.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“But I can be a very kind and caring person, especially if I am about three thousand miles away in a different country.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“what do you do with Sex Gods? Besides snog and worship them, I mean.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“She who laughs last laughs the laughingest.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“I said with great dignosity, “Father, I am afraid I can’t discuss my private life with you as I have a date with Lord of the Flies.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Lord of the Flies is so boring…and so weird. I always thought boys were very very strange, but I didn’t think they would start eating each other.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Jackie wears even more makeup than those scary circus people. You know, when you go to the circus and you accidentally see a trapeze artist close-up and they are orange.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“I said to Mum, “Vati is very very like David Beckham, isn’t he? Apart from being porky, heavily bearded and crap at football.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Campingfahrt means not, as you might imagine, an unfortunate incident with Libby in a tent…. It means “camping trip.” I think I have a natural talent for languages.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“What in the name of Buddha’s bra is he going on about now?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“As we passed a bloke playing a saxophone underneath one of the arches, he put down the sax and started doing a juggling thing with his hands. It was a bit peculiar, though, because, as I said to Jas, “He hasn’t got any balls.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“As I have said with huge wisdomosity many times, boys the world over are a bloody mystery.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“I know there is an unseen power at work of which we have little comprehension, but I don’t really feel I can consult with Jesus about my basoomas.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“I’m big as a linebacker, and a seven-year-old girl treats me like her errand boy. Does she smell weakness on me?”
― Gennifer Choldenko, quote from Al Capone Does My Shirts
“Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.”
― R.A. Salvatore, quote from Streams of Silver
“Die Wirkung eines solchen Hauses auf seinen Besitzer ist unverkennbar. […] Es ist ein gegenseitiger Austausch von Würde, Bedeutung und Kraft, und jegliche Schönheit (oder deren Mangel) spinnt ständig wie ein hin und her sausendes Weberschiffchen von einem zum anderen geheime Fäden. Man schneide die Fäden durch, trenne den Menschen von dem, was von Rechts wegen sein Eigen und bezeichnend für ihn ist, und was zurück bleibt, ist ein seltsames Wesen, halb Erfolg und halb Versagen, wie die Spinne ohne Netz, das nie mehr sein wird, was es war, wenn ihm nicht alle seine Würden und Einkünfte zurück gegeben werden.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from The Financier
“Now as I began to sort through his “effects” it occurred to me how little I had really known him … I had forced upon my father the character that fitted most easily with my image of myself; to have had to admit to any complexity in him would have compromised my own.”
― David Malouf, quote from Johnno
“Four of us,' said Morwen. The cats yowled. 'Yes, I know, and of course you're coming, but you can't carry a bucket of soapy water, so for the purposes of this discussion it doesn't matter,' she told them.
The cats gave her an affronted look, turned their backs, and began making indignant little noises at each other.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, quote from Searching for Dragons
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