If people die the moment that they graduate, then surely it's the things we do beforehand that count.
Jenny Mellor
I don't want to lose my virginity to a piece of fruit.
Jenny Mellor
If you never do anything, you never become anyone.
Jenny Mellor
It's funny though, isn't it? All that poetry and all those songs, about something that lasts no time at all.
Jenny Mellor
The life I want, there is no shortcut.
Jenny Mellor
Nobody does anything worth doing with a degree. No woman anyway.
Jenny
Studying is hard and boring. Teaching is hard and boring. So, what you're telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again, but this time for the rest of my life? This whole stupid country is bored! There's no life in it, or color, or fun! It's probably just as well the Russians are going to drop a nuclear bomb on us any day now. So my choice is to do something hard and boring, or to marry my... Jew, and go to Paris and Rome and listen to jazz, and read, and eat good food in nice restaurants, and have fun! It's not enough to educate us anymore, Ms. Walters. You've got to tell us why you're doing it.
Jenny
I feel old. But not very wise.
Jenny
Mr. and Mrs. David Goldman. Mr. and Mrs. David Goldman. Mr. and Mrs. David you're married!
Jenny
When were you going to tell me?
Jenny
You were living with your wife all this time, around the corner! Byron Avenue. It's no wonder we kept bumping into each other, is it? What number?
Jenny
I have nothing. I didn't take my exams. I... I left school. Where's it all gone now?
Jenny
You're my father again now, are you? And what were you when you encouraged me to throw my life away? Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men, but what about you two?
Jenny
And you're aware, I suppose, that our Lord was Jewish?
Jenny
Knowing a famous author is better than becoming one. It shows you're connected.
Jack Mellor