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Mandy

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Mandy’s Quotes

“If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."

[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
― Scott Lynch

tags: honesty, reviews, twitter

831 likes

“I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

411 likes

“I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: fantasy, fiction, humor, young-adult

394 likes

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

1189 likes

“You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: humor, mess, pigsty

948 likes

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