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
“Une fois, il m'a dit que j'étais belle. Il y a plus de vingt ans et j'avais un peu plus de vingt ans. J'étais joliment vêtue, un faux air de Dior; il voulait coucher avec moi. Son compliment eut raison de mes jolis vêtements.
Vous voyez, on se ment toujours.
Parce que l'amour ne résisterait pas à la vérité.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Perfect doesn't exist for people like us, Bartholomew. Passable. That's what I want. Just simply passable. If I could have a passable existence, I think I'd be very grateful.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from The Good Luck of Right Now
“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, quote from The Country of the Pointed Firs
“There are no truths, only stories.”
― quote from Stray
“To-day all our novels and newspapers will be found to be swarming with numberless allusions to the popular character called a Cave-Man. He seems to be quite familiar to us, not only as a public character but as a private character. His psychology is seriously taken into account in psychological fiction and psychological medicine. So far as I can understand, his chief occupation in life was knocking his wife about, or treating women in general with what is, I believe, known in the world of the film as 'rough stuff.' I have never happeend to come upon the evidence for this idea; and I do not know on what primitive diaries or prehistoric divorce-reports it is founded. Nor, as I have explained elsewhere, have I ever been able to see the probability of it, even considered a priori. We are always told without any explanation or authority that primitive man waved a club and knocked the woman down before he carried her off. But on every animal analogy, it would seem an almost morbid modesty and reluctance, on the part of the lady, always to insist on being knocked down before consenting to be carried off. And I repeat that I can never comprehend why, when the male was so very rude, the female should have been so very refined. The cave-man may have been a brute, but there is no reason why he should have been more brutal than the brutes. And the loves of the giraffes and the river romances of the hippopotami are affected without any of this preliminary fracas or shindy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from The Everlasting Man
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