Sue Townsend morreu!

A autora de "diários" de Adrian Mole morreu aos 68 anos.

A criadora de uma das mais carismáticas personagens da ficção juvenil ( ou isto seria também uma ironia da autora?) morreu hoje ao 68 anos deixando um legado algo desconhecido no nosso país, mas apreciado em Inglaterra e no resto da Europa.

Aqui ficam algumas das melhores frases de Adrian Mole:

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

2. “I have realised I have never seen a dead body or a real female nipple. This is what comes of living in a cul-de-sac.”

3. “I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever."

4. “I asked Pandora how long she would love me. She said, ‘As long as Britain has Gibraltar.’”

5. “Guilt is a destructive emotion and doesn’t fit in with my Life Plan.”

6. “I was racked with sexuality but it wore off when I helped my father put manure on our rose bed.”

7. “Mrs Thatcher has got eyes like a psychotic killer, but a voice like a gentle person. It is a bit confusing.”

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

9. “Perhaps when I am famous and my diary is discovered people will understand the torment of being a 13 3/4 year old undiscovered intellectual.”

10. “The tap drips and keeps me awake/ In the morning there will be a lake”