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“And I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“Oh Blimey O‘Reilly'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's sake, Will, get a grip!!”
― Louise Rennison, Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

“Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.”
― Louise Rennison, Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

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

“He said, 'Hi, gorgeous,' which I think is nice. I admire honesty.”
― Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?”
― Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.”
― Louise Rennison, Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“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, Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.”
― Louise Rennison, Withering Tights

“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, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“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

“Watching TV Mum said, 'Do you miss your dad?' and I said, 'Who?”
― Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.”
― Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Burnt Tongues

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Ah, my dear friend, cheer up... After all, we have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can't behave so abominably anymore. All right, we're not free. But we are used to that, Mr. Kujawski. After all we were both born into slavery, and we will die in it. Oh yes, at first they'll exploit us ruthlessly. Fourteen hours of slave labor a day. A bowl of watery soup. Whippings, beatings... But that will pass with time. Because there is peace, they won't have a chance to get any new slaves. They'll have to take good care of those have already. Cheer up, dear Mr. Kujawski... [...] Arbeit macht frei, work makes man free, and it makes him especially so in the sunshine of European peace. We will lack only one thing. Only one! The right of dissent. The right to say out loud that we want a free and independent Poland, that we want to brush our teeth and go on holiday in our own way, conceive children and work our own way, think in our own way, live and die. This is the one thing you will find missing in the sunshine of European peace, which you, my friend, hold to be the highest good.”
― Andrzej Szczypiorski, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.”
― Alberto Moravia, The Time of Indifference

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ”
― Robert M. Hutchins

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.”
― Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
― Maya Angelou

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote