Sunday, 2 August 2009
Vintage quotes: Junior year in London
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"We have officially founded the Harriet Vane Society. In a pub. Our motto will be, `as my Wimsey takes me.’ Or rather, `take me, Wimsey, take me!’" - Margaret, on Valentine's Day
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"I’m going to kill you. Once I finish imploding." - Margaret, in response to Catherine's vicar-and-chocolate scene
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"A nice pair of tits comes along, and next thing you know, you're mole-flipping in britches." - Margaret
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"Don’t let me have more than three drinks; having more than three drinks convinces me I can river-dance. (thoughtful pause) I can not river-dance." - Catherine, on St. Patrick's Day
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"The world is ending. Fancy a drink?" - Catherine responds to international crises
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"Unfortunately, just when they were both naked and chasing each other around a field, it went horribly wrong." - Catherine.
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"Alastair Campbell isn't bad-looking, and he's got that bad-boy appeal. In a ...political way" - Catherine at 1:13 a.m.
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"Alastair Campbell is sex on legs. It's as simple as that." - Catherine at 2:57 a.m., several days later
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"So basically, Number 10 is just a nest of orgiastic desire." - Catherine
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"It's bad when I get turned on by vague inversions of grammar." - Catherine
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"Wouldn't it be funny if we were minorly injured, and - no, wait, that's not the funny bit!"." - Catherine
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"Yeah, criticise our government if you like, but don't you DARE insult `Double Take'!"" - Catherine
"That's because `Double Take` is a hallowed institution defending our way of life - the American government is just some tosser impersonating the President." - Margaret
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"Yeah, I think that for the sake of democracy, the Queen should personally bomb some shit." - Catherine
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"I'm having flashbacks. Only this time, we have food. Which is a pleasant change from last time. When we didn't." - Margaret reflects on her progress in life.
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"That's not our pizza. That's three Indians in a car." - Margaret
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"I smoked almost an entire pack of cigarettes, drank more than I ever have in my life, and I think I licked the fingers of a strange man - "
"You did. I can confirm that part for you."
"And yet I feel no sense of guilt or shame."
"Well, neither do I, and I'm the one who actually goes to church." - Catherine and Margaret
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“I don't know about you and your friends. You and your friends are kind of strange." - Mommy
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"I mean, we've only known each other three months, and we're planning all sorts of things."
"Right - among them assassinations, the seduction of various political figures -""
"Cooking ..."
"Uh-huh, cooking -." - Margaret and Catherine
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"Your sister is a constant source of entertainment for me. I want a "What Would Grace Do?" bracelet." - Lyah
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"If the couple next door to us starts having sex again, we go out into the hall and cheerlead."
"Two, four, six, eight, show us how you procreate!!" - Margaret and Lyah in Rome
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"You see, Peter Mandelson is the narcissistic bitch from hell. He's fantastic." - Catherine
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"All right, it needs to get dark out, so I can take off some clothes." - Margaret
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“You know, I don't think I made it quite clear enough that when I said 'we should write something together.' I meant, like, a limerick.” - Catherine, upon completion of our novel.
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“All right, ten quid says one a.m. finds us chained to the gates of Downing Street in our corsets, chanting 'hell no, we won't go!'" - Catherine, at the beginning of our last night in London
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