Цитаты из книги Love, Nina

"This beautiful stained-glass is very old & fragile, please close doors gently." Both Sam and me admitted that the note made us want to slam the door very hard. Sam said he felt horrible for thinking that. I didn't. I think it's normal to think like that and that's why I'd never write a note like that. You're asking for trouble. Like when people write 'Handle with care', what do they think people are going to do? Handle with care?

Being a nanny is great. Not like a job really, just like living in someone else's life.

It's very nice having Nick Nichols from SDU around. Just when you think everything's shit, he says how great everything is in his American accent and it's convincing.

From train window I saw graffiti, 'I fuck my cousin', in long white letters (very neat) and I thought of Charles Darwin and felt quite impressed with myself.

- Do you need spare batteries for your Walkman? - No, it's only a four-song trip.

- Anyway, I don't believe every cloud has a silver lining. - Why? - They don't. - But philosophically? - No, some things are 100 percent total shit.

Granny W' helper was quite nice, except when I had to trim Sam's hair she stood right by us and criticised my method. Not that she's a hairdresser; she's just an ordinary posh person who's been taught to share her opinions with all and sundry.

We are very near the zoo, but they never go there. And nearish to Madame Tussaud's but they never go there either. They never do the things you'd imagine. Apparently only people who don't live in London do all that stuff. Real Londoners just go to secret places that tourists don't know about, like Hampstead Heath.

Floppy: What kind of trees are those? MK: They're just trees. (Which in her language, it's like calling someone a fucking twat.)