Sue Townsend Quotes

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises. They smell good. They fit into a handbag and can be carried around and opened at will. They don't change. They are what they are and nothing else. One day I want to own a lot of books and have them nbear to me in my house, so that I can stroll to my bookshelves and choose what I fancy. I want a harem. I shall keep my favourites by my bed.

My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.