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“I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.”
― Louise Rennison, Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?'
'Look, shut up, people might hear.'
'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?”
― Louise Rennison, Stop in the Name of Pants!

“Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal. She was like an anoraksick. (A person who is both very thin and wears tragic anoraks.) I just made that up as a joke. Even though I am very upset I can still think of a joke.”
― Louise Rennison, It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers!

“You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!”
― Louise Rennison, Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers

“When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.”
― Louise Rennison, Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

“I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably has two girlfriends. He would laugh if you told him you just had one. He would say, 'C'est tres, tres tragique.'”
― Louise Rennison, Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

“He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.”
― Louise Rennison , Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs.
P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.”
― Louise Rennison, Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!”
― Louise Rennison, Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”
― Dodie Smith

“Oh, comfortable cocoa!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts...”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Oh, wise young judge.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”
― Dodie Smith (Cassandra Mortmain, I Capture the Castle), I Capture the Castle

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
― Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography