“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

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

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British writer 1951–2016

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