Line(s) of the Day #TheInbetweeners

Posted on August 29, 2024 by alexraphael

Will: Erm. Isn’t there something else on Saturday anyway?
Simon: I don’t think so
Will: My birthday.. We’re having a dinner party… I sent you the invites a month ago!
Neil: Is that really happening? I thought it was a joke.
Jay: It’s a joke that we’ve got to go to a dinner party rather than a sex party.
Will: Two things: One, it won’t be a sex party, it’s Louise Graham we’re talking about.
Two… Even if it is, you were invited to my party first.
Neil: Just cancel yours Will, you can have your birthday any weekend.

Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison and James Buckley in the noughties sitcom The Inbetweeners. I’ve quoted the first film and the second film before but with rumours of a third film, it was definitely time to highlight how funny the series was.

Line(s) of the Day #TheFourSuspects #Miss Marple

Posted on August 17, 2024 by alexraphael

“Of course,” said Miss Marple, “a lot of people are stupid. And stupid people get found out, whatever they do. But there are quite a number of people who aren’t stupid, and one shudders to think of what they might accomplish unless they had very strongly rooted principles.”

Taken from the short story ‘The Four Suspects’ in the collection The Thirteen Problems by English writer Agatha Christie. The prolific “Queen of Crime” published sixty sixty novels and 14 short story collections, including for her much loved Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot characters.

Line(s) of the Day #TheGlassCastle

Posted on August 7, 2024 by alexraphael

“Things usually work out in the end.”
“What if they don’t?”
“That just means you haven’t come to the end yet.”

Taken from the extraordinary novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Based on her dysfunctional and nomadic life childhood, it tells of the complicated relationship with her alcoholic father and struggling artist mother and how her extreme poverty faced different judgements from society.