Louise Rennison Quotes

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The tannoy is crackling but I can only hear heavy breathing and snuffling.... Uh-oh, the tannoy is crackling again. "Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen, I momentarily lost hold of my pie.

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He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine.

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I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson

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I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

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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?

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It turned out he had next to no idea what I was talking about in the book. I had to put a glossary of words he didn't understand in the back for the American editions. Words like "prat" (someone who plays air guitar at concerts or puts two legs down one knicker leg) etc. Common-or-garden comedy words. That everyone knows! Even the Germans.

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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.

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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.

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It was a true-to-life hilarious retelling of my life at 15. Who wouldn't laugh at accidentally shaving off your own eyebrows, or going to a party as a stuffed olive? Who? Answer me that?

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I will not have him in my brain; there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

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Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks.

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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.

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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?

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